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MS Plans Emergency Update to Fix .ANI Bug
A feed from The Reg says"Widespread exploitation of an unpatched Windows vulnerability involving cursor animation files over the weekend have prompted Microsoft to announce plans to release an out-of-sequence patch on Tuesday MS plans emergency update to fix blinking cursor bug."
that ANI will be ok.
I'd comment if I could hit the "submit" button with this darned cursor....
Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. -Firefly
look at the cute little fat blue dinosaur wobble!
R GESUMINLAGOSNIGERIA...
oh! what gorgeous red prancing pony!
oooh! a spinning coin, it's magic!
ha! i like how the fingers tap as they wait, it makes me smile
wait, what's this?
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intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
the "most secure" OS more than once a month?
Patch Tuesday is wonderful. That means I can get up Wednesday morning, boot up my wife's PC and not have to deal with "Honey, what's the flashing little shield for again?". And before you ask, yep, it's going to Ubuntu pretty soon. Just got her on Firefox ("where is the blue E thingy now? How come it works different? Did you break the computer again?").
The good news? She now knows what a BSOD is - although I'm saddened to report that it is likely some annoying little hardware problem rather than being a Windows issue per se. Time for the screwdrivers...
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
To Windows Update, same as every day!
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"...the damage in IE 7 in Vista is quite limited in its default "protected" mode."
I think if you are running Vista, you are _damaged_ enough anyway.
Why did your "security gnomes" not speak up in the first place about such a stupid feature? Why are these things always sneaking in through cursors and screensavers? Are you keeping them busy implementing crap like this in the first place, instead of having security gnomes look at your existing code?
People will continue to leave Windows in droves because it's getting loaded with troublesome features like this that backfire even for people who aren't using them or aren't aware of them. Nobody is interested in this junk aside from malware writers and teeny boppers, but everyone is exposed to the vulnerabilities in these features anyway nonetheless because they're bundled into the OS. The vast majority of users are not interested in having their stupid mouse cursors animate. And this chronic habit of running code that arrives over the Internet from unknown sources is getting really old. Dear Customer,
Unfortunately a hoard of deranged Mac users has invaded the Microsoft Development Center. They seized the security gnome's cave and their slashdot troll is currently blocking the entrance. Unfortunately, at the time this happened, we had just successfully repelled a massive frontal assault on our development center by a hoard of torch and pitchfork wielding penguins and as a result we were to low on throwing chairs to repel the second assault. We are sorry if this causes you any inconvenience but until the next consignment of hand made throwing chairs arrives from Italy allowing Mr Ballmer to lead us in a fresh asssault to retake the security gnome's cave we will be unable to help you with your problem. Please accept this conciliatory bucket of Microsoft® Fried Penguin drumsticks and a bottle of Microsoft Windows Vista® Kool-Aid free of charge as compensation for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Regards
The Microsoft Support Team.
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
MS plans emergency update to fix blinking cursor bug.
Now all they need to do is fix the blinking Active X bugs, the blinking default open ports, the blinking UAC, and all the other blinking problems.
Pardon my language...
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"where is the blue E thingy now? How come it works different? Did you break the computer again?"
Time for the screwdrivers...
And by that you mean the alcoholic beverage, right?
Family tech support: proving S&M tendencies is genetic.
I haven't seen an ANSI bug since my days as a BBS sysop years ago.
Oh but Linux supports animated cursors, therefore they are the source of all goodness. But Linux doesn't have buffer overflows anywhere, so it's fine.
Merely being able to support a stupid feature on an OS platform, if someone chooses to install it, isn't quite the same as bundling the stupid feature into the operating system itself- i.e. into a browser that was forcefully (and without too much foresight) jammed up the OS hard to bamboozle a judge. All other operating systems allow you to uninstall a piece of software like that if it introduces security holes into the system. Try doing that with IE. A security flaw in IE is an issue for the entire OS. Windows pulls IE out of its ass to render stuff all the time. Not only can't you uninstall IE from Windows, you have to keep applying security patches to IE on a regular basis even if you would really like to uninstall it.
Now quit defending yourself on Slashdot, get back to your cubicle, and fix your browser slash operating system, security gnome.
Rumor has it ANI was struck by some smooth criminals, who came in through Windows... or something like that.
Thanks for the spoiler!