Novell Supports Microsoft ActiveX, Leaves Windows Open for Hijackers
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-08-26 21:57:08 UTC
- Modified: 2008-08-26 21:57:08 UTC
“At Microsoft I learned the truth about ActiveX and COM and I got very interested in it inmediately [sic].”
--Miguel de Icaza
Novell, whose on-line shop requires that the buyer uses Internet Explorer, is also an embracer of ActiveX, a nasty poison which Microsoft devised in order to break the Web, bring Netscape to its knees, potentially make more back doors, and make third-party information and services dependent on Microsoft Windows.
We posted some links to ActiveX menaces
here (noted related to this are
here). Novell's naive
support of ActiveX is costing it now. A new Novell/Microsoft bug enables people to hijack computers, contributing to an already large
pool of about 320,000,000 zombie PCs.
Attackers can exploit bugs in Novell Inc.'s iPrint application to obtain corporate information or hijack computers, security experts said today.
Novell has issued a patch that plugs multiple holes in the ActiveX control that Novell ships as part of its iPrint product, but according to Copenhagen-based bug tracker Secunia APS, one of the flaws remains unfixed.
If Novell uses ActiveX, does it mean that it turns its back on Firefox? And on GNU/Linux? Either way, it does not look good.
Novell:
Vista supporter, IE supporter, ActiveX supporter,
.NET supporter,
XAML supporter. Just lovely.
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Comments
Sebastiaan Veld
2008-08-28 20:19:47
Baby In The Bath Water
2008-08-28 21:53:19
One quickly discovers over the course of reading his FUD that if he spent any time at all researching the things he "reports" on, he wouldn't be able to sling mud.
He's so consistently wrong and out of touch with reality, it's astounding.
Note: this comment was posted from Novell's headquarters.
Baby In The Bath Water
2008-08-28 21:54:43
Note: this comment was posted from Novell's headquarters.