Comments on: Eye on Microsoft: Vista/7 Trouble and More Security Chaos

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:56:10 +0000

> How will they fit into M$ fake patching metrics? See this. A secondary accumulation is this or this. Someone should coin the term "Goebbelsian Patching".

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:50:19 +0000

Ok. Thanks.

The remote vulnerability is interesting. M$ apparently plans to leave it open until some months in the future. I wonder how they will try to spin or misrepresent the patch time?

Two weeks ago the issued a patch for a problem made public two years ago. Also recently they issued a patch for another problem made public over 7 years ago. Some of those patches don’t actually fix the problem. How will they fit into M$ fake patching metrics?

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:33:40 +0000

I’ll slice it in the future.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:31:11 +0000

Better with one subject per article so that the discussions can be more focused.

Anyway, there is a remote vulnerability present in the current Windows Vista kernel, which will remain accessible at least until the next service pack (which is a long way off)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10106173-83.html

It’s not the first nor the last.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10106173-83.html

Windows Vista is full of holes. For security go with RHEL, ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, OpenBSD, Slackware, or just about anything except Windows.