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.ANI Vulnerability Patch Breaks Applications
Jud writes "Microsoft's fix for the .ANI vulnerability was part of Patch Tuesday yesterday. However, all is not well with the update. Reportedly, installing the patch will break applications such as Realtek HD Audio Control Panel and CD-Tag, which mentions they are affected by the problem on their main page. A hotfix is currently available from Microsoft, however their current position is this is an isolated problem and the fix is not planned to be pushed out through Microsoft Update. "
> This is exactly why it takes Microsoft so long to put out patches sometimes.
Yeah like allowing websites to load animated cursors is great idea of bloat. WTF you would event want to do that? When using operating system shell I have my OWN set of cursors and it is totally stupid to even add such feature...
So take it like this (it is quite obvious). Windows is bloated. Bloat means that in every stupid feature that nobody uses can be a but. Bloat means that patching is hell because it is so bloated that things will break when removing the stupid feature that nobody had used anyway.
What was few last MS critical holes that all spammers and alike were targeting? I guess something related to some obscure *.MHT (FIXME) format that nobody even knows what it does and now another *.ANI format - that yet is even more stupid that it resides in Windows since the day one.
They wan't a stable, lean system? Rewrite it from scratch and run legacy apps in legacy OS emulation. Like Apple did with OSX.
Now Windows is like big layered cake that have been here for few years. It always gets another layer (think OS version) on top of previous. The previous layers start to rot, then some worms comes out thru the new shiny layer, so you patch the layer with a candy. And so on...