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Microsoft Finally To Patch 17-Year-Old Bug
eldavojohn writes "Microsoft is due for a very large patch this month, in which five critical holes (that render Windows hijackable by an intruder) are due to be fixed, in addition to twenty other problems. The biggest change addresses a 17-year-old bug dating back to the days of DOS, discovered in January by their BFF Google. The patch should roll out February 9th."
Rather easily...
Windows 3.1 - 7 are often based on the same code set. A security flaw back in windows 3.1 was back then a small detail considering that to get into windows 3.1 you need to type in "win" at the DOS window. Where in DOS you can do basicly anything you wanted.
So It wasn't fixed. Security wasn't a real issue for Microsoft until Windows NT 4.0 by then the code segment would be considered safe or good as it has been there so long. When you have millions lines of code doing a security audit will leave holes you skip parts that you know works well.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
The sad thing with MS is that you can point out a problem to them, show them exactly how to fix it and they still do nothing. A business case must be made for every change which goes into their products which has to justify not only the cost of making the change but that of updating all the associated test plans and the financial impact of all future regression testing. It is much less frustrating to leak a security hole and let them patch it as an attempt to wipe the egg from their face, IMHO.
none of the stupid fucks in this subthread know what they are talking about
Except anyone who cared about UI would use OS X, and anyone who was bored and liked to fight their computer instead of using it would chose Linux. So essentially no different than now.
Yes yes.... We see you can spout the damn advertisement for DSL. Whoever got the clue to compare Windows and DSL is dumb... on epic levels. You're comparing an OS not designed with size constraints with an OS specifically designed over YEARS to work with extreme size constraints. Congrats. That's like comparing a semi truck and a delivery bike and bitching because one can't be carried upstairs by the messenger. FFS.
Whoa there dude! Check your keyboard, somebody might have slipped you a Dvorak.
Fuck you mods and your troll bullshit. /. is owned by a company that has a stake in FOSS.
And yet, they carry Microsoft advertisements.
Every fucking headline or story about MS is painted in a bad way,
That's because everything Microsoft does is bad news. It's either something they're doing to the user, or something they're doing incompetently. And when Microsoft is going around claiming they're doing a lot for security, when they're clearly not even doing competent security audits of their existing code, they deserve to be flamed for their lies.
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