Trustworthy Computing

Anonymous Coward writes "This is a first: the Internet Storm Center is recommending trustworthy computing. They want you to trust that the unofficial patch for the Windows Metafile Volunerability that is currently being exploited by an IM worm. No patch from Microsoft at this time, and the exploit is arranged in such a manner that it cannot be detected by most intrusion detection systems (the snort rule will peg the CPU on your router) nor filtered by packet-inspecting firewalls (it spans two or more ethernet frames). Not really a whole lot of choice about this one."

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[Jonnty]

It'd be nice to have a computer that I can use the patch on.. Maybe I can Wine it?

Haha!

[Trip Ericson]

Saturday's word was "transferbangle." Today's word is "volunerability." I wonder what tomorrow's word will be!

Talking of 'Trustworthy Computing'

[peterpi]

I love the way the story starts 'Anonymous Coward writes', with an email address link to the author.

o.O

[xx_toran_xx]

They want you to trust that the unofficial patch for the Windows Metafile Volunerability that is currently being exploited by an IM worm.

OK, tell me how that sentence is supposed to make sense. Come on :|.

This Is Incomprehensible!

[TexVex]

Anonymous Coward writes

Writes? Wouldn't a high school English teacher send this back with a little markup and a big fat red "F" on it?

"This is a first: the Internet Storm Center is recommending trustworthy computing.

I think this is the one valid sentence in this whole summary!

They want you to trust that the unofficial patch for the Windows Metafile Volunerability that is currently being exploited by an IM worm.

Obviously one instance of "that" is an extra. But which? Remove one, it means one thing; remove the other, it means something different.

No patch from Microsoft at this time,

Fragment (consider revising).

and the exploit is arranged in such a manner that it cannot be detected by most intrusion detection systems

Flowers and furniture are arranged. Music is arranged. Why the hell is the bolded phrase even in there? Try "the exploit cannot be detected by most modern intrusion detection systems" on for size. That edit gets rid of the passive voice and that meaningless phrase all at once!

(the snort rule will peg the CPU on your router)

I guess somebody's snorting something. What the hell does this mean?

nor filtered by packet-inspecting firewalls (it spans two or more ethernet frames).

Ooh, somebody just loves the parentheses! Why not kill them and insert ", since" after "firewalls"?

Not really a whole lot of choice about this one.

Fragment (consider revising).

I don't know who's more of an idiot -- the submitter or the "editor" who accepted this turd of an article summary.

Ahhhh!

[gQuigs]

I've removed:
ActiveX for streaming video
AOL ART Image Format Support
Intel Indeo codecs
Media Center
MIDI audio support
Movie Maker
Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder
Speech Support
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player 6.4
Client for Netware Networks
FrontPage Extensions
Internet Connection Wizard
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer Core
IP Conferencing
MSN Explorer
Netmeeting
Outlook Express
Vector Graphics Rendering (VML)
Windows Messenger
Desktop Cleanup Wizard
Framework
Help
Out of Box Experience (OOBE)
Shell Media Handler
Tour
Web View
Zip Folders
Fax Services
Imapi
Indexing Service
System Restore
(nliteos.com)
AND I AM STILL VULNERABLE!???

Perhaps I should switch to linux :) |scroll lock||scroll lock| (KVM)