Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in WinXP SP2

SoTuA writes "Few months after SP2 hit windowsupdate.com, Finjan Software reports that security flaws have been found in WinXP SP2, including malicous code execution without user intervention. Finjian has turned over the findings, along with proof-of-concept, to Microsoft."

Comments

Internet Explorer Again?

[ralinx]

from the article:
"By exploiting all vulnerabilities discovered in SP2 by Finjan, attackers can silently and remotely take over an SP2 machine when the user simply browses a Web page,"

gee... why am i not surprised that Internet Explorer once again introduces huge security problems?

in the meantime, a patch can be downloaded here

allthough i must admit... SP2 has had a good run... most of the recent security problems in XP/IE were non-issues in SP2. Too bad it couldn't last longer.

OpenOffice.org: enhanced annoyances on par with MS

[KWTm]

Thank you! That struck a chord with me. It blows my mind how the OpenOffice.org suite (in particular OOo Writer) has painstakingly reproduced the frustration in using MS Word. Spelling "corrections" are automatically made, tables contents are automatically assigned different fonts and line spacing, and that bloody lightbulb keeps popping up like some Web ad.

And that splash screen when it starts up, subbornly staying on top and covering the other windows --is Sun *trying* to advertise how bloody long it takes to start up the program?

But you know what the clincher is? I bought the "OpenOffice.org 1.0 Resource Kit", a manual written by Solveig Haugland, and there was this fairly common feature (I forget which one --maybe inserting a static date as text?) that she COULDN'T FIGURE OUT how to do. She basically says, "So far we haven't figured out how to do this yet." This is from someone who's writing a manual for the software.

Good God, Sun, why don't you just get bought out by Microsoft already. Maybe it's time to take another look at AbiWord, see how they're doing on their tables support, and break out the GNOME libraries...