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FLKook
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Critical Warning from Microsoft
 Thu Mar 20, 2003 1:54 am
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81576,00.html
Microsoft Warns of 'Critical' Flaw in Windows Software
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
WASHINGTON — Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday warned about a serious flaw in all versions of its popular Windows software that could allow hackers to seize control of a person's computer when victims read e-mails or visit Web sites.
Microsoft assessed the problem's urgency as critical, its highest level, and urged customers to download a free repairing patch immediately from its Web site, www.microsoft.com/security.
A top Microsoft security official, Steve Lipner, said the vulnerability was being discussed openly among experts on the Internet when Microsoft learned about the flaw early in January.
An Internet security company, iDefense Inc. of Chantilly, Va., said Wednesday it learned about the flaw in December 2002 from Roland Postle, a respected British computer security researcher widely known on the Internet as "Blazede," and passed the information to Microsoft on Jan. 9.
But iDefense also immediately and quietly warned its clients, which include large corporations and U.S. agencies, before Microsoft could fix the problem.
"It was made public before we had our fix out," said Lipner, Microsoft's director of security assurance. "It was under fairly wide discussion in some forums that we heard about."
Microsoft and iDefense said they were unaware of any reports that hackers already had used the technique to break into computers, even though months had passed between the disclosure of the flaw and Wednesday's announcement that it could be fixed.
Russ Cooper, a security expert for TruSecure Corp., based in Herndon, Va., predicted that antivirus software will be updated to protect users who might receive infected e-mails and that Web sites with infected pages would be shut down quickly once they are detected.
"I doubt we will see an attack based on this," Cooper said. "It's pretty unlikely any such exploit attempt will get legs."
The problem involves tricking Windows into processing unsafe code built into a Web page or e-mail message. It was particularly unusual because it affected so many different versions of Windows, from Windows 98 to its latest Windows XP editions.
Lipner confirmed that the faulty software code was created years ago and included in every successive generation of Windows software without programmers ever realizing it was so seriously flawed -- even after the intensive scrutiny of Microsoft's latest flagship, Windows XP, which the company has billed as its most secure ever.
"I would have hoped this would have been caught," Lipner said. "Clearly it's one of those things we'll be looking at."
Lipner said Microsoft's automated software scanners were being updated to detect similar problems. He said the flaw announced Wednesday was "not obvious by any stretch of the imagination" even to experts studying software blueprints.
There was some good news. Microsoft said customers using the newest versions of its e-mail software, Outlook Express 6 and Outlook 2002, were protected from hackers trying to exploit the problem using e-mails.
Older versions of Outlook would also be safe if customers had manually applied another security patch, which Microsoft released in 2000 after the spread of the damaging "ILOVEYOU" virus.
Microsoft said customers could manually adjust settings hidden deep within its Internet Explorer browsing software to prevent Windows from processing the dangerous code. Experts, however, said that was not easy to do for many users and that it would cripple convenient functions for many popular Web sites.
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Swamp Gas
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Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:08 pm
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Dump the Junk...Go with Linux or Mac OSX. Bill Gates was a cocaine fiend, like Bush. Coke permanently bores holes in the brain. Sections of brain still work quite well in these individuals, such as breathing, crapping, eating, and making/scheming money. Gates is in league with the NSA, with TCPA/Palladium. Linux is a negative, as is Apple, on that piece of Un-Constitutional garbage.
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Swamp Gas
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 3:02 am
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No Bill Gates and NSA sniffing on my computers. This reminds of Ken Starr writing and studying all the lurid details of Clinton's cock. These Puritans (Bush, Ashcroft, Gates) like the idea of smelling other peoples digital underwear.
Likewise, whore Gates goes right along with this "Big Brother" insanity because the Ashcroft Regime got Microsoft off easy.
With or without grease, sir?
Now, Seeker, what kind of conservative are you that you want people looking at your hard........er......disc? |
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FLKook
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 3:42 am
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"These Puritans (Bush, Ashcroft, Gates)"
Gas, that is a total insult to Puritans. A WASP conservative Christian background is not what bred these monsters. There is nothing Puritan about Skull and Bones. Your loathing of Christian conservatives is the same as mine for left wing pinkos, we're both falling for "the NWO trap". Let's both try a bit harder to distinguish between Illuminati and those that hold their beliefs true, whether right or left in philosophy. |
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Swamp Gas
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 4:03 am
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quote:
Originally posted by FLKook:
"These Puritans (Bush, Ashcroft, Gates)"
Gas, that is a total insult to Puritans. A WASP conservative Christian background is not what bred these monsters. There is nothing Puritan about Skull and Bones. Your loathing of Christian conservatives is the same as mine for left wing pinkos, we're both falling for "the NWO trap". Let's both try a bit harder to distinguish between Illuminati and those that hold their beliefs true, whether right or left in philosophy.
I'm talking about the witch-burning or liberal-attacking Puritans, the ones who kill in the name of god. Sorry, I'm more of a Pagan, so let's drop that, as .....again, sorry Florida, The Bible doesn't mean as much to me as someone else. I am guided by something stronger, my conscience. To each their own. You have to admit that Ashcroft is a real loonie, with evil dancing calico cats. I don't think he is Skull & Bones, so this wouldn't be the model Puritan. In fact, who would you consider to be the model Puritan?
Strange how you assume I'm attacking Christians. I can't stand hypocrites, not Christians. I happen to have good friends that are Christians, and they still can't quite figure me spiritually. By the way, I have many lefty friends, so please refrain from those attacks. I'll be the first one to go after The Nation or any left magazine for being phonies.
But you'll have to admit, those pinko-lefty-liberals are sure kicking up a storm around the planet, resisting the 4th Reich. Wait a second, so is the Pope. As a matter of fact, what the Pope should do is campaign against Bush getting elected in 2004. Take away 12 million votes right there. So, to clear something. I like Jesus the Socialist, Jesus the Healer, Jesus the Vegetarian, Jesus the rabble rouser, Jesus the party Dude, Jesus the Carpenter, not the pasty white holier-than-thou dead Jesus, or Killer Jesus.
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FLKook
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 4:27 am
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No personal attack on you meant Swamp (I'm looking forward to your trip to my neck of the woods so we can tip on back and figure the world out..LOL)I'll try to better behave myself on the leftist pinko comments.
The ultimate Puritan? I dunno, but it ain't Asscroft.
Jesus the Vegetarian? Not. He ate plenty of fish, me too! |
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FLKook
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 4:30 am
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Ooops forgot something...Jesus the deity triune God, the one and only son of God, the head of the church and my personal Lord and Savior.
I can't figure you out either Swamp but I'll count you among my Pagan friends, yes I have quite a few. |
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Swamp Gas
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:38 am
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Ok Florida, and we can shoot at them tin cans.
Please, I like Jesus. I think more people should truly try to be like him. But he was an Exponential socialist (sorry Kook, he was by all definitions) going against the Empire. Look at history of Exponentials going against the Linear Empire. Galileo, Bruno, Socrates, Joan of Arc, Einstein, Ghandi, Gurdjieff, Tim Leary. All chased, burned, jailed, shot, and crucified becuase they DARED to go against Rome, 3rd reich, and Homeland Security.
http://www.christianveg.com/
What Operating System would Jesus use?
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Mech
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:26 am
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A MAC daddy!!!!
No Micro-softee for the Mechster.
Luv my G-3 and OS 9.2.2
Probably upgrade to OS Jaguar sometime this year.
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Swamp Gas
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:37 am
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Mech, I broke down and got a dual 867, and we're saving for that quad processor 970, 64 bit baby coming after summer. It crank! I was running TEN videos simultaneously, all at full frame rate, surfing the web, and capturing video and sampling audio, all the same time. Try that on Windows. Hah!
Jaguar 10.2.4 is stable, to say the least. Use Linux as a server if you want, and who need Billy Boy gates, Asscrack, or Intel/AMD for that matter. My friends 3.06 GHZ Pentium Laptop just melted Friday, and he actually has insurance that covers it. Guess what he's getting? 1 GHZ 17' Powerbook.
Anyway, not to insult Windows people, but don't talk morality if you are paying for your own surveillance. |
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Swamp Gas
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:38 am
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Mech
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:40 am
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A dualie?
TOO SCHWEET!
Sounds like the ultimate machine.
You must have a smokin' video card to go with it. |
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Swamp Gas
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Sun Mar 23, 2003 7:04 am
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Macs are A/V capable straight thru firewire, no need for video card. If you want D1 uncompressed 4:2:2, you put in a Digital Voodoo card. |
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CONSPIRACY_MAN
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Sun May 25, 2003 3:52 pm
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windows is one big error no privacy at all.
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