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re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

Waethorn — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:09:28 GMT

"it is about as sophmoric as robertsjoe's rants"

Is it lonely up there on your high horse?

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

tayme — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:01:17 GMT

@Waethorn - "more importantly, no one mentioned my new avi!"

Only because it is about as sophmoric as robertsjoe's rants!

--tayme

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

Waethorn — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:38:35 GMT

"no one bothered to read this link wae posted?"

more importantly, no one mentioned my new avi!

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

shark47 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:27:01 GMT

BTW, no on bothered to read this link wae posted?

blogs.technet.com/.../advance-notification-for-december-2008-out-of-band-release.aspx

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

Waethorn — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:21:57 GMT

"Shout out to Sharky....this problem is now dangerous to Vista users as well."

Very little can be done by this if the user has UAC turned on. UAC also turns on Protected Mode in IE and limits user (and program) permissions. I tested it in a VM, and nothing was downloaded, nor did anything happen to IE settings. It's designed to modify certain files, but is shut down by DEP before it has a chance to run. The only thing that happened was that IE crashed, but memory contents weren't affected, as DEP prevented overflow corruption. AV software picked up cached data as suspicious and deleted it. No other data was modified in the VM (VHD comparisons proved that).

"I am always hearing...how fast MS patches this stuff"

They already have one in the works. It's been announced that it'll be released tomorrow. So tell me: is Leopard still as f*ed up as ever, or are you still apologizing for it?

"How OS X users are so foolish for not running AV. I read on some site that there are an estimated 6000 known sites using this exploit already."

LOL. Then that's proof enough! I read that's more sites than there are Mac users!

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

Lindy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:09:07 GMT

And here is your personal site...

en.wikipedia.org/.../Jackass

OS X is not perfect, but I seem to hear from the other Two Jack@$$'es that Windows/MS patches fast and that XP is the one with problem, not "The Vista".

When the simple realistic facts are....

All software will have bugs and openings and Windows is targeted WAY MORE than OS X, simply because of market share. Its success has made it a target.

MS used to have a HORRIBLE track with patching IE and their other software. After Billy G's famous email on taking security seriously MS has gotten a lot better.....better than many including Apple at responding to vulnerabilities. That said they need to fix this fast since IE is 70+ % of the browsers out there.

You see if you cut out my sarcasm I am practical when it comes to the subject.

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

shark47 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:58:16 GMT

OK, since you brought it up, Microsoft has published workarounds and is working to provide a fix. There are some companies that don't even acknowledge the issue until they post a fix. Care to guess the name of one such company?

"How OS X users are so foolish for not running AV."

No. No. OS X is perfect. No software in OS X has any problems. God himself/herself has coded OS X.

Lindy, here's a more relevant link for you:

en.wikipedia.org/.../Multiple_personality_disorder

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

Lindy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:43:41 GMT

Canadiot put "Tard" in F@&Tard. Nice move genius, hopefully anyone clicking on it was running OSX.

www.microsoft.com/.../961051.mspx

Shout out to Sharky....this problem is now dangerous to Vista users as well. I think you were the one that told me to read the link I posted. It was originally only supposed to be a problem with XP and 2003.

I wonder why MS has not patched this yet? I am always hearing from Canadiot and Microsoft Mikey how fast MS patches this stuff. How OS X users are so foolish for not running AV. I read on some site that there are an estimated 6000 known sites using this exploit already.

Good Times!!

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

Waethorn — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:58:29 GMT

@losta:

They're called "zero-day exploits", dumbass!

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

Waethorn — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:57:37 GMT

You can let out a sigh of relief:

blogs.technet.com/.../advance-notification-for-december-2008-out-of-band-release.aspx

....back on topic.... ;)

Yes, I agree that they need to add support for other Windows Live apps/services, not just Hotmail.

Movie Maker seems to be coming along too. The new Trim option seems to be a good solution to the non-existant timeline. At least you can cut out the fluff from pre-existing video clips. There still needs to be some form of project compatibility with Windows DVD Maker though. With Windows Movie Maker, you could save a project file and import it directly into DVD Maker, thereby eliminating the need to pre-render video clips before burning to DVD. Now, you have to pre-render as a WMV and import it into DVD Maker, which loses some quality. The audio options need to be better implemented too. I like that the Publish plugins are compatible between Movie Maker and Photo Gallery. The Photosynth Publish plugin rocks too.

If you haven't already seen "ICE", check it out:

research.microsoft.com/.../ICE

The HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom options are awesome!

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

lotsamystuff — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:41:38 GMT

Wae's slogan: "Exploiting Windows Vulnerabilities since...well, day one"

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

Waethorn — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:51:13 GMT

"Helper cat is supposed to use his powers for good, not evil."

Just like UAC, if I annoy, my job is done! :P

re: Introducing Windows Live Solution Center

Waethorn — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:39:54 GMT

"on the other hand, how many readers of this and other boards click on tinyurl links all the time"

I always strip out the www. if it's there and prepend preview. on the link so that I can see where it's headed first.