Since someone mentioned it, the CHM exploit has a large market because those people decided not to install that patch a year or so ago. Went to a million warez/porn sites and they only had the same exact CHM exploit.
Non-admin users cannot be affected by it with or without the patch.
I still don't understand why operating systems are so dumb that they let any old virus or piece of spyware execute without even asking me.
How's an operating system to discern the difference between good code and malicious code? Malware doesn't just mutate from the OS's own binaries out of nowhere; some jackass has to fire up their warezd copy of C++ (assuming they didn't use the toolkit which is free) and write an ordinary program with malicious instructions (after all, isn't a program defined as a set of instructions the computer executes?).
Is Java runtime a virus? OMFG it can update itself. It can check for updates without me ever knowing when that action occured or see it. Firefox can too. Perhaps it should read: I still don't understand why users are so dumb that they let any old virus or piece of spyware execute.
Point in case, the OS only does what you f**king tell it to do!
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Non-admin users cannot be affected by it with or without the patch.
The administrators mistake Windows for a "set it and forget it" OS.
This poster presents a valid point. The toolkits they release are free, however, the IDEs (Visual Studio) aren't.
How's an operating system to discern the difference between good code and malicious code? Malware doesn't just mutate from the OS's own binaries out of nowhere; some jackass has to fire up their warezd copy of C++ (assuming they didn't use the toolkit which is free) and write an ordinary program with malicious instructions (after all, isn't a program defined as a set of instructions the computer executes?).
Is Java runtime a virus? OMFG it can update itself. It can check for updates without me ever knowing when that action occured or see it. Firefox can too. Perhaps it should read: I still don't understand why users are so dumb that they let any old virus or piece of spyware execute.
Point in case, the OS only does what you f**king tell it to do!
Mod parent up even more! Here here!
That's just silly. We all know that we don't want to have to type commands to use our car.
damn, so Linux won't be dying anytime soon? that's bad news