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Many Hackers Accidentally Send Their Code To Microsoft

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-the-brightest-cookie-in-the-shed dept.

joshgnosis writes "When hackers crash Windows in the course of developing malware, they'll often accidentally agree to send the virus code straight to Microsoft, according to senior security architect Rocky Heckman. 'It's amazing how much stuff we get.' Heckman also said Microsoft was a common target for people testing their attacks. 'The first thing [script kiddies] do is fire off all these attacks at Microsoft.com. On average we get attacked between 7000 and 9000 times per second.'"

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  1. Re:How Does It Encapsulate the Source Code? by Runaway1956 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "5. If you're debugging the OS itself (say the window manager), then you can't use a GUI debugger since it needs the window manager to draw its UI!"

    *cough*

    In any REAL OS, the window manager isn't part of the OS. All a window manager is supposed to do is - like - you know - MANAGE THE WINDOWS!

    Oh, sorry, I forgot. We're talking about Windows OS. My bad.

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