__/ [ Phil Da Lick! ] on Monday 05 February 2007 16:00 \__
> Doug Mentohl wrote:
>> "The security testing group found that Live OneCare missed far more active
>> viruses than any other program tested"
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6331959.stm
>
> "When Vista was launched on 30 January, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
> claimed that it was "dramatically more secure" than other operating
> systems."
>
> Priceless.
"Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could be
hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6320865.stm
Windows Vista: It's More Secure, We Promise
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| Well, allow me to take a moment to remind everyone of something that
| you might not remember - XP was also touted as being ultra secure.
| Seriously, can anyone honestly look themselves in the mirror and say
| this is the gospel truth? You have got to be kidding me. Similar to
| XP, Microsoft promises to have the most secure Windows version to date
| yet again.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2357&Itemid=449
eEye Research
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| Description:
| A flaw exists within Windows Vista that allows local privilege
| escalation to SYSTEM.
|
| Operating Systems Affected:
| Microsoft Windows Vista
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http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/upcoming/20070119a.html
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
How Long Does It Take To Catch A Computer Virus?
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| Would you believe only 8 seconds?
|
| In fact, after only 8 seconds, the unsuspecting little rascal was
| undergoing the machine equivalent of being turned into a "Pod
| person from the planet Mars!" First, it was hit by Sasser, one of
| the fastest spreading worms on the Internet. Then it started
| downloading strange programs from mysterious internet addresses.
| Then it started looking for other machines to infect.
|
| Within five minutes, the little rapscallion was running so many
| malicious programs that it was running totally choked up and its
| CPU was 100% occupied performing virus-related tasks.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002712&subSection=All+Stories
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