The parent is, of course, refering to the guy that wrote a worm (using HTML + Javascript) to get a lot of MySpace friends. He's even written down how he did it. Quite an interesting read.
yet another Microsoft "innovation" that is decades behind the competition.
And the manner in which they claim to "solve" this really gets me nervous:
"If you have to reboot, then what happens is that the system, together with the applications, takes a snapshot of the state: the way things are on the screen at that very moment, and then it just updates and restarts the application, or in the case of an operating system update, it will bring the operating system back exactly where it was," Allchin said.
So basically it reboots, and then restarts your applications? Sounds to me like they're making things worse.
Ok, so what happens when someone learsn to trick this reboot manager into doing theiur bidding. Say a virus, trojan, or worm "learns" how to get this thing to work for it. It's a system process right? Thus should have some pretty hefty access priviliges and probably a million holes to have to plug. I'm waiting for the new generation of bugs and security holes that can be exploited just from one new aspect of this OS. Way to go Microsoft!
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The parent is, of course, refering to the guy that wrote a worm (using HTML + Javascript) to get a lot of MySpace friends. He's even written down how he did it. Quite an interesting read.
http://namb.la/popular/tech.html
yet another Microsoft "innovation" that is decades behind the competition.
And the manner in which they claim to "solve" this really gets me nervous:
"If you have to reboot, then what happens is that the system, together with the applications, takes a snapshot of the state: the way things are on the screen at that very moment, and then it just updates and restarts the application, or in the case of an operating system update, it will bring the operating system back exactly where it was," Allchin said.
So basically it reboots, and then restarts your applications? Sounds to me like they're making things worse.
Ok, so what happens when someone learsn to trick this reboot manager into doing theiur bidding. Say a virus, trojan, or worm "learns" how to get this thing to work for it. It's a system process right? Thus should have some pretty hefty access priviliges and probably a million holes to have to plug. I'm waiting for the new generation of bugs and security holes that can be exploited just from one new aspect of this OS. Way to go Microsoft!
Well, at least you won't have to reboot.