.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. "

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The sad life of a Windows developer

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Developers, developers, developers

Many of them trying to keep afloat the bastardized zombie of a legacy project begun in DOS and ported to Win 3.1, Win32, Win64, .NET, Sun Java, MSJava, Sun Java again and Vista. None of them with Microsoft's preferred and undocumented internal APIs for any of those systems. Many of them with no clue how to write good code, managed by non-programmers who can't tell. Each of them insisting that each revision has slain their sacred cow. So many of them that any patch no matter how trivial breaks some critical application for some enterprise somewhere.

Working against a system that has to be so locked down a non-admin can't save a shortcut on the desktop, and still isn't secure.

They've built their house upon the sand and act surprised that it falls on them frequently. It's like a physical comedy where the same stupid ladder gag gets the laughs no matter how many times the audience has seen it.

Vista published in 2007 vulnerable to the functional equivalent of Comet Cursor, published in 1995. That's rich humor there, boy.

--- making a mint rolling back Vista "upgrades": priceless.