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Well here we go a gene down the yellow brick road following Bill the supper man Gates off the the never never land of windows! Have you ever thought that windows would get all the bugs out. Vista has just gotten a security hole fixed that they release it with and knew about since last Christmas. Heres the full details. First Let's get this out about Yahoo Messenger does not work on vista, Well No Voice Chat! How lame is that all new software package and windows does not contain some of the old DLL files needed to run voice chat. So what else is not going to work now? Here is another example... Vista corrupts iPods, and creates a new internet explorer security risk. Microsoft has just patched another critical hole in Vista that it knew about as long ago as last Christmas. The delay was similar to its lag in patching the serious (and heavily targeted) animated-cursor flaw I told you about last month. The new problem involves the way that the OS's Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) handles error messages, and it affects Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP too. This flaw may not be as severe as the cursor problem, as Microsoft says you'd have to perform certain unspecified "actions" on a malicious Web site before an assault could succeed. But if you were to get snared, an attacker could run any command or program on the victimized PC. Proof-of-concept code, which often presages attacks, is available, but no active attacks on this hole have been reported yet. Microsoft has just patched another critical hole in Vista that it knew about as long ago as last Christmas. The delay was similar to its lag in patching the serious (and heavily targeted) animated-cursor flaw I told you about last month. The new problem involves the way that the OS's Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) handles error messages, and it affects Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP too. This flaw may not be as severe as the cursor problem, as Microsoft says you'd have to perform certain unspecified "actions" on a malicious Web site before an assault could succeed. But if you were to get snared, an attacker could run any command or program on the victimized PC. Proof-of-concept code, which often presages attacks, is available, but no active attacks on this hole have been reported yet. Microsoft patched a Windows Vista bug that can corrupt an iPod when you use the 'Safely Remove Hardware' feature or disconnect the iPod using Windows Explorer. Though Microsoft provided no details on just how a player is affected by the bug, the company's notice says that you'll have to use iTunes to restore all the music on your iPod if it happens. (It also says that Apple recommends always using iTunes to disconnect an iPod.) Get the patch and more info from Microsoft. Trojaned Pics from your Photoshop? Say what? Adobe's Photoshop CS2 and CS3 contain critical flaws that can give an attacker control over your PC if you use either program to open bitmap images (those ending with .bmp, .dib, or .rle) that have been rigged, according to security firm Secunia and the French Security Incident Response Team. At least one proof-of-concept exploit is available online. Adobe hadn't released a patch at this writing, so be careful with e-mailed or downloaded images. Get more info from Secunia. Also, an independent researcher nabbed a $10,000 prize from 3Com's TippingPoint division by exploiting a new bug in Apple's QuickTime player to break into a Mac running OS X. Apple released a patch 11 days later, before any actual attacks surfaced. QuickTime 7.1.6 corrects this flaw, which affects Windows as well as Mac OS X; get the patch from Apple, or from within the program by clicking Help, Update Existing Software. More of this news about Windows to come shortly. Because just as it seemed that XP was all patched and running well they want to make us buy a software package that everyone has to learn to freaking use all over a gene. Wish there was a product in a spray can that would fix all the bugs in windows. I could become a over night millionaire if i could produce a windows fix in a can.
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