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Microsoft Has No Plans To Patch New Flaw
Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft has acknowledged the vulnerability that the new malware Stuxnet uses to launch itself with .lnk files, but said it has no plans to patch the flaw right now. The company said the flaw affects most current versions of Windows, including Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7 32- and 64-bit. Meanwhile, the digital certificate that belonging to Realtek Semiconductor that was used to sign a pair of drivers for the new Stuxnet rootkit has been revoked by VeriSign. The certificate was revoked Friday, several days after news broke about the existence of the new malware and the troubling existence of the signed drivers."
How about fixing vulnerabilities when they're found, for starters?
That's not a feature or capability of the OS.
This is what the discussion is about -- MS's refusing to fix a known vulnerability in their newest operating systems.
No, the discussion is about a Slashdot editor's anti-Microsoft troll, since Microsoft haven't said anything like "refusing to fix a known vulnerability".
And that's just for starters, the list is almost endless.
Then you shouldn't have the slightest trouble coming up with, say, 10 examples of features and capabilities missing in Windows that make it insecure.