wide open to hackers. The entire operating system, not just the email or
other components....Supposedly the biggest security risk in MS's shakey
security history. Read more about it...before a hacker takes over your
sy.....
dave henrie
dave henrie
And Win95, 95, ME. Were you advocating Win2000? That's the only one
not on the list.
Also, any firewall will block this vulnerability almost completely.
Dave
> Just saw on one of the 24 hour news channels that both versions of XP are
> wide open to hackers. The entire operating system, not just the email or
> other components....Supposedly the biggest security risk in MS's shakey
> security history. Read more about it...before a hacker takes over your
> sy.....
> dave henrie
You're looking real secure there too, Dave. :-P
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Fester
> > Just saw on one of the 24 hour news channels that both versions of XP
are
> > wide open to hackers. The entire operating system, not just the email
or
> > other components....Supposedly the biggest security risk in MS's shakey
> > security history. Read more about it...before a hacker takes over your
> > sy.....
> > dave henrie
> Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators
> Subject: HEY XP owners...I TOLD YOU SO!!!! <evil laugh!!>
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> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
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> You're looking real secure there too, Dave. :-P
> --
> Fester
Everyone? hehe...only people i've heard that keep saying how secure XP is
has been Microsoft. =)
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- Will DeRivera
- GPL Rank 105.63, i'll be working on it again soon!
- http://www.numic.net
- http://www.luxt.com
Trouble is XP installs this component by default with no way verify users,
and it allows complete takeover of the PC. Just a stupid thing to do. Leave
it to MS!
> > Just saw on one of the 24 hour news channels that both versions of XP
> are
> > wide open to hackers. The entire operating system, not just the email
or
> > other components....Supposedly the biggest security risk in MS's shakey
> > security history. Read more about it...before a hacker takes over your
> > sy.....
> > dave henrie
http://www.msnbc.com/news/675850.asp#BODY
dave henrie
> > Never said I was secure Uncle...I've even gone thru the experience of
> > having a hacker take over my machine while I was on the keyboard...hehe.
> > Just everyone keeps saying XP is this big upgrade...seems more of the
> same
> > to me..
> > (I'll be quiet now and go back to my run down ratty system...)
> > (I think I'll be chopped up pretty good by morning.)
> > dave henrie
> Everyone? hehe...only people i've heard that keep saying how secure XP is
> has been Microsoft. =)
> --
> - Will DeRivera
> - GPL Rank 105.63, i'll be working on it again soon!
> - http://www.numic.net
> - http://www.luxt.com
Achim
> > Just saw on one of the 24 hour news channels that both versions of XP
> are
> > wide open to hackers. The entire operating system, not just the email
or
> > other components....Supposedly the biggest security risk in MS's shakey
> > security history. Read more about it...before a hacker takes over your
> > sy.....
> > dave henrie
Achim
> > Just saw on one of the 24 hour news channels that both versions of XP
> > are
> > wide open to hackers. The entire operating system, not just the email
> > or other components....Supposedly the biggest security risk in MS's
> > shakey security history. Read more about it...before a hacker takes
> > over your sy.....
> And Win95, 95, ME. Were you advocating Win2000? That's the only one
> not on the list.
> Also, any firewall will block this vulnerability almost completely.
> Dave
Achim
> > Just saw on one of the 24 hour news channels that both versions of XP
are
> > wide open to hackers. The entire operating system, not just the email
or
> > other components....Supposedly the biggest security risk in MS's shakey
> > security history. Read more about it...before a hacker takes over your
> > sy.....
> > dave henrie
> Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators
> Subject: HEY XP owners...I TOLD YOU SO!!!! <evil laugh!!>
> Lines: 21
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
> You're looking real secure there too, Dave. :-P
> --
> Fester
Achim
It's amazing that any piece of software, nevertheless an OPERATING
SYSTEM, would ship with a service enabled like that. I mean come on,
every service on every OS eventually is compromised, the least MS
could do is face this and stop putting network services into their
software that either can't be disabled or shouldn't be enabled by
default but are anyway.
I'm also not sure what people were expecting when they upgraded to
what is essentially Windows NT 4.2, but there's no point in preaching
here. Hopefully eventually Microsoft will release an OS that holds
some sort of *** advantages over Win 98, since that's all their
software is useful for.
b.) Windows 98 is infinitely more secure than Windows XP. Then again,
this is to be expected since Windows 98 has the benefit of 3 years of
patches, where XP was apparently sent to a bunch of morons for beta
testing (actually, based on the people I know who did beta testing,
there's probably some truth to that statement).
c.) Windows 98 is and probably forever will be a better choice for
*** if only because the shell in XP wastes RAM/CPU cycles in order
to look nice. This has been a complaint of mine since MS decided to
kill the efficiency of their shell by replacing the 95 Explorer with
IE (the performance difference between a copy of Win98lite using the
Win95 shell and a standard copy of Win98 with IE 4/5/6 is amazing).
The sole *** advantages of XP are a slightly more stable (but
bulkier) kernel and SMP capability which is useless for most ***
applications. I mention this because *** is the only reason why
anyone should be running Windows on their PC's at this point, what
with the number of operating systems available now that make more
efficient use of your system resources. I sincerely hope that XP
continues to sell poorly because I'd hate to see games developed that
only run in XP.
d.) The security exploit found in Windows XP dwarfs all security
exploits found in any software in the history of computing. Because
of a bug in the Universal Plug and Play feature (I'm guessing a buffer
overflow, based on comments by Microsoft's Security Team) and the fact
that UPnP is enabled by default in XP (can you say bad design
decision) it is possible to gain access to any unpatched Windows XP
machine that is connected to the internet (or any network that you
have access to, for that matter). Period. This is a default install
of what MS has hyped as the most robust, secure OS ever designed
(wonder if they're familiar with FreeBSD, since they've stolen so much
of the source code for their TCP/IP utilities from it).
> > Just saw on one of the 24 hour news channels that both versions of XP
> are
> > wide open to hackers. The entire operating system, not just the email or
> > other components....Supposedly the biggest security risk in MS's shakey
> > security history. Read more about it...before a hacker takes over your
> > sy.....
> > dave henrie