gi7omy Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Seems the much-vaunted 'security' of IE7 could be problematic "...Microsoft released seven patch bulletins for its December 2007 security update Tuesday, addressing critical flaws attackers could exploit to launch malicious code or gain extra system privileges on computers running DirectX, Internet Explorer (IE) and various versions of Windows...." and this side note "Because of the media player component in MS07-068, you're looking at probably the largest attack vector, and the lesson of MS07-069 is that you have to be careful with Internet Explorer even if you're running it on a Vista machine," article here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Dave Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Ten (10) patches were installed today on my desktop PC running VISTA. Everything is working OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerman Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Ten (10) patches were installed today on my desktop PC running VISTA. Everything is working OK. I had updates for both Vista and XP and while 2 Office updates failed on Vista (I really don't care why), the rest did fine. No damage as far as I can tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted December 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Oh I'm not saying that installing the patches is a bad idea or that it will cause trouble I just find it slightly ironic that, after all the claims of the 'security' on IE7 and Vista being tighter than a duck's posterior, that MS had to issue patches to plug security holes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Dave Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 It seems that every OS released was supposed to be more secure than the previous OS. Yet, we keep on seeing more and more security patches. It's going to be awhile before this changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn98109 Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives said, "It takes a good carpenter to build a barn, but any jackass can kick it down." We can argue how well the code is built, but there is a certain group who keep kicking at it. Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 After seeing what they've done to the country, I sure hope you're not suggesting that politicians know anything about software! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn98109 Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 I'm suggesting that it is a lot easier to cause a program or OS to act differently than to create the program/OS in the first place. There are going to be more people able to accomplish the former. And the program/OS with the most users will be considered the bigger target. Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serge Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Can you say...... VMS... ??? The most secure O/S I have worked with. To this day, it has never been hacked. Windoze is the most popular O/S because it is the easiest to train people with. I cannot imagine having to train regular users with VMS! I would never get any sleep with all the supposrt calls! It seems that every OS released was supposed to be more secure than the previous OS. Yet, we keep on seeing more and more security patches. It's going to be awhile before this changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted December 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Actually the reason doze is the most popular OS is a small amount of arm-twisting to ensure it is pre-installed on all computers supplied by the big box-shifters. Try getting a PC with anything else and see how far you get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Dave Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 You can by PCs from some of the smaller custom PC builders without the OS. As you say, the big box sellers don't give you that option. Dell used to offer Linux but I haven't seen it on their web site lately as an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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