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Windows users unprotected against viruses
toadlife:
--- Quote from: Calum ---Well here's another stunning example of microsoft's lightning quick reactions to a security threat, i am sure this makes windows users feel valued, and i know they will realise that this sort of hasty response from microsoft is well worth paying their licence fees for...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4580852.stm
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The patch was released today.
Calum:
that's hardly an answer, it's still been weeks.
and how long will it be till the next huge security hole is found?
toadlife:
--- Quote from: Calum ---and how long will it be till the next huge security hole is found?
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Probably aroudn the same time as it takes for the next hige security hole in some other OS is found. The difference is the value in exploiting it.
If Windows weren't used by so many people, there would ,most likely have been no exploits for this particular vulnerability. There have been multiple vulnerabilities that have affected linux/unix/bsd that are pretty much exactly the same as this one (view image == code executes), and they were never exploited. If you think they weren't explited because they couldn't be, you're living in a fastasy world.
One of Windows weaknesses is it's large marketshare. It's a big target and there is high value in exploiting a Windows vulnerability.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---One of Windows weaknesses is it's large marketshare.
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... I hope you are kidding :eek:
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---... I hope you are kidding :eek:
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He isn't. In some ways it's a good thing but in the security sense it can be a bad thing (and it definetly is for Windows - ya know, Microsoft's POS OS?).
Windows has many weaknesses and it's market share is one of them (it's also a plus, but it's still a weakness in the security sense).
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