Comments on: Uptick in Windows attacks reported

Security experts warn of increased cyberattacks on Windows PCs, via a known security flaw, but Microsoft says all is calm.

[Sumatra-Bosch]

Just Wait Until Vista Ships! Oh, God, It Will Be Shredded

Within hours of its release, hackers will tear into Vista to find hooks for stealing home users and businesses' bank account credentials. Billions will be lost within hours. Banking and settlement systems will be shut down all over the world and central bankers will call for indictment of the company. Microsoft will call the publicity of the thefts "gross exaggerations by the company's infinite enemies in the press."

The scandals will completely devastate the release of Vista and most businesses will refuse to deploy Vista when their IT staffs tell them the new OS will only attract even more attacks than patched XP systems. MS will be reduced to issuing press releases about victorious deployments in "a bakery in Ottawa" and "a car wash in Sierra Leone" which the press will reveals were bought by MS a week before the software was installed.

Ballmer, always regarded as completely insane and emotionally unstable, will disappear without a trace. Psychics will lead police to his final resting place, his station wagon, parked behind the IGA supermarket in Spokane where police will determine he had shot himself 6 times in the face, reloaded, and shot himself another six times in the kidneys, a story that will briefly provoke skeptical reactions from the press.

[Tomcat Adam]

And then...

Skynet will become self-aware.

EVERYBODY PANIC!

In all seriousness, I'm wondering what true windows bashers would do if the OS was secure. And I mean, OSX secure. Will that happen? Probably not, some flaws were already 'discovered'. But it would be very interesting to see the reactions of anti-ms zealots.

[richto]

uhhm yeah right.

I assume thats an attempt at humour. Its not a very good one.

Sounds far more likely that Vista will slowly drift onto the market as a non event and people will gradually migrate to it as it becomes proven and any initial bugs are fixed.

Vista certainly makes it a LOT tougher to send worm attacks or take ownership of the box via remote buffer overflows, etc. MS have dedicated a lot of effort to improving security from the ground up.

[alucinor]

OpenBSD

Hackers everywhere will soon strike Windows OSes in a massive attack in order to create demand for the unbreakable OpenBSD.

The Blowfish is coming, people. Microsoft will die at the hands of the Blowfish.

[Macsaresafer]

Reformat???

I can't remember the last time I needed to reformat a Macintosh
hard drive. It was some time in the mid 90s, I believe. Even then,
the hard drive itself was suspected to be the likely culprit and I
replaced it soon after.

The most unbelievable thing about all of this is that there are still
people who refuse to give up on Windows, and not just the IT techs
who make money off of it! There are a lot of masochists out there.

[slim-1]

Let's go with any alt OS of Choice

Mac, Linux, BSD. Take your pick. Let's join forces to create a world without Microsoft.

By the way I'm a recovering former Windows IT tech that had my own company for 20yrs. I spent many sleepless night earning the right to say Microsoft is a bad obsolete product.

I went out of the Windows support business by choice because I could no longer justify making money off the OS. I made around $500k off supporting it and the whole time wishing they were on any other OS.

Folks there is life after Microsoft.

[ServedUp]

Next... Vista in the limelight.

So what else is new? XP, I feel is yesterday's news.

But certainly hackers have another juicy victim in Vista and its
most definitely a sitting duck (with a red X painted on its body).
Its already been proven it isn't 100% secure. Granted, its better
than XP as an upgrade, but more secure? More revolutionary??
More worthy of a launch bigger than Windows 95? Hardly.

The only thing going for Vista is that Aero is better than Luna.
Everything else will most likely be made up by the Microsoft
Marketing team. Half truths and lies and a pinch of story telling
of what their planning next for the future. I mean they certainly
have us fooled with Vista, don't they? I'm probably going to buy
it. But you only need to look at Paul Thurott's website on
Windows and see how far its fooled him (its an entire 3 year
analog of Vista's history, from Whistler to Longhorn to Vista).
He's such a dedicated Microsoft fan its scary.

[mcepat]

Vista it isn't 100% secure

That exploit was a vulnerability in the AMD Virtual Service not Vista, thats like saying the recent wireless exploit was all Apples fault? It wasn't it was Intel Centrino

[Dalkorian]

enjoy!

ServedUp made this brilliant statement:

"I mean they certainly have us fooled with Vista, don't they? I'm
probably going to buy it."

Wow. It's not like I modified that quote at all, one sentence
claims people are fools if they belive in Vista and the next
sentence claims he/she will buy it.

I hope you enjoy your life in servitude. I guess some people
think being a slave really isn't that bad. Whatever - I hope you
enjoy being owned.

[sleepingcobra1]

Patch After Patch After Patch............

Vista will be like all the other Operating Systems. It won't be more secure than anything in the past. If or when you do get Vista, expect to add a ton of patches if not "Patched Patches". I am in no hurry to get Vista. I will stick with Windows XP Pro and i will keep using Firefox. Robert

[Europodboy]

Vista

Vista will NOT be like all the other operating systems.
Only OSX is still, after 5 years, completely secure.
It's a pity that it doesn't even appear on your radar.
Enjoy Windows XP Pro and all the continuing patches, If thats all
you know, thats all you deserve.

SE Linux or SUSE Linux with AppArmor

Mandatory Access Control... the way of the future.

[imacpwr]

I should have bought a Mac..!!

Now repeat after me...

[yikes31]

VISTA: Is that it?

Micro$oft have taken six years or so to develop VISTA.
When it is released (Whenever that is), everyone is going to need
to upgrade their hardware and then fork over about 200 - 300
bucks for a copy, go through the usual rigmarol of caling up for
validation and all that and then they are finally going to start it
up.
Then they're probably going to be woooed by the flashy
graphics. But I think that a small number will see past the
graphics and ask the question 'Is that it? Is that what Ive waited
six years for and have speent $xxx upgrading/replacing my
system for?'
But they will be left with the consolation that there will be less
viruses for VISTA.... Until they've owned it for a week or so.
And they will be encouraged to buy microsoft's antivirus tools.
In my mind, they should be able to stand behind their product
and state that it is secure - not that it will be secure if you fork
out more cash. After all, thats what they are touting with this
new OS.
Never mind, one day the excuses will dry up and people will see
that they have viable alternatives in BSD, LINUX and MAC OS X.
Then perhaps the legacy of windows will be over!

[Björn Lundahl]

Read these objective reviews of Windows versus Linux!

http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/2006/05/03/linux-and-windows-compared-the-facts.aspx

and


http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/2006/04/20/linux-a-european-threat-to-our-computers-by-tristan.aspx

They are quite funny and seems to be jokes!

Björn Lundahl
Göteborg Sweden

[qwerty75]

They better be jokes

Objective?

Only if you are a hopeless MS fan.

I rarely see more lies or misinformation all in one place(other then fox news).

Linux is more stable and safe then windows. It is not communist or any other such nonsense.

No wonder your posts are filled with BS and ignorant ramblings if you actually believe this crap.

[Björn Lundahl]

About those? objective? reviews Windows versus Linux.

I was trying to be funny in posting those narrow minded and stupid reviews. I thought they were so funny that I laughed for an hour. A guy here thought that I was being serious. Of course I am not!

Björn Lundahl

[wbenton]

Microsoft won't accept the inevitable

Microsoft will continue to say what it wants... but can what it says be taken as 100% true?

They have a reputation for claiming one thing when in fact it's just the opposite of what they're claiming.

Notice the following says reported... not as in speculated or proposed or purported or possibility... but "AS IS BEING REPORTED"... but yet still Microsoft attempts to flack it off.

Reports are increasing thus it's not something to flack off. Except that Microsoft flacks it off... except that they shouldn't... but they do... but they shouldn't... but they do... etc. etc. etc. et. al. et. al. et. al. blah... blah... blah...

Bottom line... Microsoft doesn't accept the inevitable!!!

Walt

[DiamondBridgeCenterfuge]

Managers are lazy sheep

The only reason that microlimp still has market share is because the wannabe know-it-all managers and executives just follow what they think everyone esle is doing. If they have the slightest inkling that things are not right it is management practice to rely on the bs hype from, you all know the sources, to "testify" on their behalf and let everyone else sort it out once implemeted.

I regularly have had to re-install ALL microfluff products, from server to desktop since it went commercially viable over the last 15 years - from DOS to XP, from NT to 2000, in order to get things to work properly again. You think there is a fix for the problems?, tell you what, you waste billions in resources finding another way to solve ms o/s product problems.

Vista will not be any different. I have a pronouncement that within this next 12 months ms flaws, bugs, holes, and crap will catch up with them!!!

Oh, I still have all ms o/s's in my primary location but all of them have to be rebuilt again... if its not the sound its the video, if its not the video its the web, if its not the web it the applications, if its not the apps its the games, if its not the games its the h/w & f/w incongruencies....

Bill, this headaches for you!!!

[kFuQ]

cyberattacks

"Several security experts are warning of increased cyberattacks targeting Windows PCs, but Microsoft says all is calm on the attack front."

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is that why there has been over 3500 attacks in the last couple of days?

http://www.zone-h.org/component/option,com_attacks/Itemid,44/

all hell is starting to break loose........

and 4 more days till 9/11