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Originally Posted by CNET
A flaw in Vista's networking has been found that can crash the system, but no fix is expected until the next service pack

A flaw has been found in Windows Vista that could allow rootkits to be hidden or denial-of-service attacks to be executed on computers using the operating system.

The vulnerability was found by Thomas Unterleitner of Austrian security company Phion and was announced Friday. Unterleitner told ZDNet UK on Friday that Phion told Microsoft about the flaw in October but that he understood a fix would only be issued in the next Vista service pack.

According to Unterleitner's disclosure of the flaw, the issue lies in the network input/output subsystem of Vista. Certain requests sent to the iphlpapi.dll API can cause a buffer overflow that corrupts the Vista kernel memory, resulting in a blue-screen-of-death crash.

"This buffer overflow could (also) be exploited to inject code, hence compromising client security," Unterleitner said.

Another reason to despise Shistain...

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raftl when are they ever gonna learn ?


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Incorrect question to be asking; the correct should be are they capable of leaning?

Id hazard a guess, from looking at Vienna, the answer would be a resounding no!!

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Aye looks like Windows 7 is the same then full of crap ya dont need.. Ya can download a trial know but who would want to ?


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Im aving enough annoyances with this BETA version of Vista...

Mind you at least the update to SP1 makes it feel like its come out of ALPHA haha!!

I can't believe Microsoft have the cheek to charge for BETA software!

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Aye smile well truth to be told ive never brought anything MS yet smile oohh tell a lie.. Microsoft Train Simulator was brought for me!

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when have microsoft ever been any good at security

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You are a big massive lier, what about that version of XP you got on your laptop!!!!

Ive never bought an OS from Microsoft either... well not directly at least lol.

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Originally Posted by Tony_1985
when have microsoft ever been any good at security

Av you not seen their HQ in Redmond, they dont let people in for fear of the rednecks going on a killing spree and braking their windows (well, Microsoft did it first is their excuse)!!

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Well that version of XP that came with my laptop is home.. I have Professional on it so yer! smile


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I still regret buying a PC with XP on it, and now my laptop has Vista SP1

I have got something wrong here

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XP is fine, once SP3 is on it. Almost at the same level as 2000. But Vista... well yeah, they're still workin that one out.

William has left the building now, so they are having to unravel the code behind it, reverse engineering to resolve the faults if ya like!

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yeah found that out with Vista today

its done nothing but run updates all day - no idea why though, was up to date this morning at 3am

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You allow Windows to run updates. Shit man, you are brave. XP SP2 comes to mind hahaha!

An 6 months out of date Windows is the most stable version you can get haha!

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