Microsoft Announces Three More Critical Vulnerabilities

weekendwarrior1980 writes "Microsoft warned that three 'critical'-rated flaws in the Windows operating system and other programs could allow hackers to sneak into personal computers and snoop on sensitive data. The flaws could allow attackers to break into PCs running Windows in several ways and then use the system to run malicious programs and steal or delete key data. These latest security flaws affect the latest versions of Windows, including Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000 , Windows XP, as well as software for networked computers such as Windows NT Server and Windows Server 2003." Their bulletins are available for these vulnerabilities. Techweb has a pretty good summary.

Comments

Re:Yay!

[sumdumass]

Thats because the computer does more work then he does. If your computer did more work than you do you would be worried about uptime too. Not all tha surprising.

same old news

[bwy]

Slashdot posts these stories every couple of days. Does anybody really care? I never read the articles. Why bother? I've got better things to talk about at the water cooler or at lunch than the latest security hole in Windows. Maybe if I were a security expert, I'd find this kind of thing interesting. I don't. Do you?

Re:More than three

[wpmegee]

Good luck trying to use more than 256mb of ram on that Win98 box. Sure, Win98 supports it, but can't effectively utilize more than that.

Most games need at least 512mb to perform properly nowadays. Battlefield Vietnam still occasionally swaps to the hard drive on my XP Pro box with a gig of ram, as does Planetside (MMOFPS), and Warcraft III also fills up 512mb regularly.

And as for home users: WinXP is much nicer (newbie-friendly) for pictures, cd burning, and basic networking. Better hardware support too.

Re:You know,

[cheezit]

Love your sig..."if you want to age 20 years in a blink, think conservative!" Does it still apply to liberal 70-year olds?