Google Researcher Issues How-To On Attacking XP 348
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timothy
from the now-get-to-the-next-phone-booth dept.
from the now-get-to-the-next-phone-booth dept.
theodp writes "A Google engineer Thursday published attack code that exploits a zero-day vulnerability in Windows XP, giving hackers a new way to hijack and infect systems with malware. But other security experts objected to the way the Google engineer disclosed the bug — just five days after it was reported to Microsoft — and said the move is more evidence of the ongoing, and increasingly public, war between the two giants."
Good Touch (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just turn it off (Score:5, Funny)
...leverage a flaw in Windows' Help and Support Center...
This service is turned off be default on all systems I manage both as part of initial installation; and where possible by Group Policy. Just another parasitic service which is not necessary....because everyone just uses Google anyways.
You should turn off everything you don't need but if you turned off every insecure component of windows you would be left with a machine just running its BIOS.
Re:Do no evil (Score:5, Funny)
What?? Given Microsoft's history of fixing their bugs, I would of released it as a 0-day instead of a 5-day! Google's just doing everybody a favor. Looks at all the other companies that are afraid of angering MS. Don't forget that Google's recent security breach is directly because of MS products.
Re:I Don't Think Zero-Day Means What You Think (Score:5, Funny)
we all know the bug have been around for years, a lot of people use it as their primary operating system
Re:I Don't Think Zero-Day Means What You Think (Score:1, Funny)
OP didn't mean the bug in MS's accounting sheet!
Silly Google (Score:3, Funny)
Do this AFTER you release Chrom[ium] OS. Then users have something to defect to...