Vista Security ‘Rendered Useless’
August 13th, 2008 by ComputerBob
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve been happily using Linux full-time instead of Windows since July, 2006.
If you’re still using Windows, and especially if you’re using Windows Vista, you need to know that researchers have demonstrated that they can essentially bypass all of Windows Vista’s security. “By taking advantage of the way that browsers, specifically Internet Explorer, handle active scripting and .NET objects, the pair have been able to load essentially whatever content they want into a location of their choice on a user’s machine. The attacks themselves are not based on any new vulnerabilities in IE or Vista, but instead take advantage of Vista’s fundamental architecture and the ways in which Microsoft chose to protect it.”
For more information and explanation, here’s a discussion about it on the Debian (Linux) User Forums.
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