Animated Cursor = Vista's Suicide?
March 31st 2007 01:32
Isn't it amazing when an operating system is so secure that the only way to make it vulnerable would be through deliberate tampering with the system by the end user, from the article,
The video in question,
So pending users who like dragging around .ani files your computer will be 'exposed' to a 'deadly' virus that will force your ever precious PC to reset. Wow. Of course the virus writer could make something more deadly, though I think Vista would catch it, the above 'virus' is no more than a piece of malware that runs your system to the ground.
However, despite these mitigations, Windows Vista is very much vulnerable to attacks. In the video embedded at the bottom, you will be able to see Craig Schmugar, virus research manager with McAfee, send Windows Vista into a perpetual "crash-restart" loop by simply dragging a malformed .ani file to the operating system's desktop.
So pending users who like dragging around .ani files your computer will be 'exposed' to a 'deadly' virus that will force your ever precious PC to reset. Wow. Of course the virus writer could make something more deadly, though I think Vista would catch it, the above 'virus' is no more than a piece of malware that runs your system to the ground.
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Comment by katyzzz
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Sounds like you know what you're talking about. I wish I did.
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Comment by yoda76
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Because this is the first time that a corrupt file has crashed a computer.
Whoop-de-doo.
Craig really needs to find something better to do - like finding viruses.
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Comment by yoda76
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It's almost impossible with the amount of data / calcluations / etc that we put through our computers these days to account for EVERY possible combination of events... I'm not sure why he's surprised that Vista (just like any other OS) has glitches or vulnerabilities like this.
Saying an OS is prone to crashing occasionally is like saying that the sun will come up in the morning, as far as I can see.
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Comment by yoda76
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Not perfect, but at least getting better? I can live with that.