DirectX Flaw Leaves Windows Vulnerable 530
cryonic*angel writes "Just when you thought it was safe to start buying music from BuyMusic, another another Windows security flaw is found, in DirectX this time, that basically affects every possible windows configuration that is still supported. I wonder, will they indemnify me for this?"
Tough one... (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft software has security flaw... what's new (Score:5, Funny)
mind you... the particular buffer overflow is unusual...MIDI files... who'd have thought???
Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
A show of hands, please! (Score:-1, Funny)
Who is surprised by this???
Will they indemnify me? (Score:5, Funny)
Har Har Har! Yeah, they'll indemnify up to the price you paid for DirectX...
You have to give M$ some credit though... finally, a security flaw where you don't have to care if you are using Win95a, win98blah, Win2k, Win2k SP1e92, WinXP, WinYP, whatever. A *cross-platform* security issue, if you will. ;)
Great. (Score:5, Funny)
A MIDI overflow? That means no more visits to most Geocities pages.
Re:SCO insiders sell, sell, sell. (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, I wish slashdot would pick up on this whole SCO thing. I cannot understand why SCO is being completely and uttely ignored here.
Re:patch me up baby! (Score:5, Funny)
Well, you know what they say about downloading and applying Windows patches...
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
MIDI (Score:5, Funny)
Ciryon
Re:Received the Update Notification and Fixed (Score:5, Funny)
If that was the solution, what the heck was the problem?!
Re:patch me up baby! (Score:5, Funny)
It's a Microsoft bug, it doesn't matter how important it is. You're supposed to be foaming at the mouth and making sweeping statements about how this proves open source is better! Don't you know what website you're on?
Re:Wha... (Score:3, Funny)
Right! Web sites are for animated GIF's and blinking text!
Re:MIDI (Score:2, Funny)
Now this just has to be the next
Which tune should you have to play to get the admin password through MIDI? Personally, I vote for the Mission: Impossible theme, but I'm sure someone has a better idea.
WineX? (Score:4, Funny)
"Unsually wide spread"?!?! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:5, Funny)
It is trustworthy! You can trust it not to work!
Ba-dum-bup! (rimshot)
Thanks folks! I'll be here all week! Try the veal!
Roberta Flack is back (Score:4, Funny)
Re:patch me up baby! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:patch me up baby! (Score:0, Funny)
And for the record, if you don't criticize nothing gets done/fixed.
Re:patch me up baby! (Score:5, Funny)
Hang on a second... it has been 30 seconds since I last checked Microsoft for another security update...
Ok, I now have another 90MB file I need to apply to the 200 NT boxes I have.... Like I was saying what the heck is the big deal? So what that most vendors release stuff on NT boxes that requires certain service packs, and won't work with others? Yeah this makes server consoldation impossible but who really cares? It isn't that big of a deal, just buy another box. Heck we plan on buying another hundred or so this year.
Hang on a second it has been another 5 min since my last check at Microsoft for another update...
Wow only two new updates! This is a first! Now, as I was saying, these open source "Quality is important" types are just zealots. They just don't understand that it isn't that big of a deal to support Windows.
Sorry, hang on a second... a new Worm just hit or email server...
Now where was I? Oh yeah, the advantages of running Windows... You have one consistant platform. Well we will when we finally get our 200 NT boxes upgraded to Win2k server. Dag gone it, I have to go and talk to our Microsoft rep again... be back in 15 min...
Ok I just found out that Windows 2003 server is out now and EVERYONE is going to it. The nice thing is that Microsoft will let us keep running our Win2k servers until the end of the year! Yeah I would like to see what you open source people say about that! See Microsoft isn't bad at all. They even told us that we could run 2003 Server for a full 3 years! Man that will make life great!
So let all the bitching begin about Microsoft over one SMALL bug! They just don't know what they are talking about...
Bashdot? (Score:3, Funny)
Dear Windows Users (Score:5, Funny)
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Yours,
B. Overflow
Re:More technical Info. (Score:5, Funny)
Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
How about: "Windows leaves Windows vulnerable?"
Re:Tough one... (Score:5, Funny)
For those of us who are running Mozilla and not IE, etc, buymusic.com's home page has a quite amusing message:
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Thank you for visiting BuyMusic.com.
In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.com's offerings you must be on a Windows Operating System using Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher.
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Re:Tough one... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Received the Update Notification and Fixed (Score:3, Funny)
>If that was the solution, what the heck was the problem?!
His computer wouldn't stop working properly.
Re:Huh? BuyMusic? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Turn to Slashdot for breaking news! (Score:3, Funny)
Looks like a case of a rapid fix from MS and a kneejerk editor at Slashdot. How about this spin? "Notified of critical bug, MS immediately issues fix". Nah, wouldn't play to this crowd.
New slashdot poll:
A flaw is announced in MS products, what happens next and why?
a) Microsoft release a fix slowly - that would never happen in open source!
b) Microsoft release a fix quickly - they must have known about it already and not told anyone!
c) MS product are a flaw in themselves, recursion not allowed.
d) They should have implemented CoyboyNeal
e) Crappy of options/all of the above
Some way to get a click... (Score:2, Funny)
Such as a link saying "CLICK HERE!"?
Re:patch me up baby! (Score:5, Funny)
What's so special is you actually *don't* have to reboot after applying the patch.
Bugs Bunny says (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Bugs Bunny says (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WARNING dont Patch!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Heh (Score:1, Funny)