Comments on: More WMF problems for Microsoft

Researcher says Windows Meta File component can be used to crash vulnerable PCs--but Microsoft says the glitch isn't so serious.

Crashes explorer.exe?!?!?!?!

That sounds less like malware and more like a valuable public service!!

Don't get me wrong---Windows isn't "evil" or anything... It's just that I'm sick and tired of "my" operating system obeying every whim of everyone on the internet but me! (the first time I got pr0n-reg-hacked I was furious! :)) It just seems like a really poor permissions model... running *NOT* in administrator mode takes away 85% of my functionality, and running in administrator mode is like waterskiing on liquid hot magma.

"switch OSes l4m3xx0rz!!!!110101!!!" My response is "hack windows better and I will!!" ha...

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[Roman12]

More WTF problems..

Personally I'm sick of all these flaws with windows, I understand that nothing is perfect, and having millions of people using a product, flaws would surface. But overall as a paying customer, your expectations of such software are high. And now this, apparently explorer.exe can crash by viewing an image.
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[zaznet]

Again, it's nothing new.

This is really nothing new. There are other options that do not involve Microsoft software.

[zaznet]

Critical or not.

The rushed security patch was listed as "Critical" however the severity was "not critical" if it involves the Windows 95, 98 and Millenium Edition versions of Windows.

This translates into "Critical unless we don't care about you anymore". The drop of support for these older versions brought an outcry that Microsoft could and would allow the Operation System to remain vulnerable to multiple points of attack in an effort to force users to buy new versions. Seems the fears have come true, but I don't see much about this issue yet.

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95, 98 and ME patches

If you're running 95, 98 or ME you don't have any security in the first place. Those OSes were based on a system that never had any security except as window dressing. How long are you planning on continuing to run those ancient and now very obsolete OSes anyway? Are you going to complain that vendors aren't fixing bugs in 5, 7 and 10 year old releases of Linux now either?

Or are you not actually running one of those but just sounding off because you feel like complaining?

MS judgment

I'm not sure relying on Microsoft's opinion regarding how critical a
vulnerability is would be a good idea.... I mean... look at their
judgments in the past... they have not been very good at picking
what is critical and what is not.