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Post August 8th, 2008, 10:29 am

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Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system, an advance that many in the security community say will have far-reaching implications not only for Microsoft, but also on how the entire technology industry thinks about attacks.


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By taking advantage of the way that browsers, specifically Internet Explorer, handle active scripting and .NET objects, the pair have been able to load essentially whatever content they want into a location of their choice on a user's machine.


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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/ne ... 95,00.html
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Post August 8th, 2008, 10:29 am

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Post August 8th, 2008, 10:45 am

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Post August 8th, 2008, 10:47 am

I've really never had any intention of loading Vista onto any of my work machines. This is just one more thing to support my reasoning for not touching Vista with a ten foot pole.

I'd rather convert everything here to Mac or Linux before I'd load Vista.
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Post August 8th, 2008, 11:29 am

There are a few people who are opting to run Windows 2008 Server as a "workstation" instead of using Vista. 2008 Server has a lot of the "pretty" features Vista has, you just need to enable them. I am planning on setting up my workstation at work as one to see how it goes.
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Post August 8th, 2008, 11:35 am

Have been using vista over one year now and i think it works great. Vista is a great OS for me anyway.
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Post August 8th, 2008, 11:47 am

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There are a few people who are opting to run Windows 2008 Server as a "workstation" instead of using Vista. 2008 Server has a lot of the "pretty" features Vista has, you just need to enable them. I am planning on setting up my workstation at work as one to see how it goes.


Really? That seems kind of weird for a server OS to come with features like that.
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Post August 8th, 2008, 11:51 am

http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/

You can enable the Aero Theme. By default 2008 server looks like a Windows Server OS but underneath the hood is a lot of Vista features.
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Post August 8th, 2008, 2:14 pm

I haven't planned on ever buying vista for my office either. I don't know if I could ever transition all our comps to linux.
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Post August 8th, 2008, 7:55 pm

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This is just one more thing to support my reasoning for not touching Vista with a ten foot pole.

I'd rather convert everything here to Mac or Linux before I'd load Vista.

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exactly..
and yea, vista works for you. but its an M$ product so of course it's compromisable as hell :-X
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Post August 8th, 2008, 8:19 pm

If i remember correctly you can tell windows to delete its self.
I myself would not make it valid command for an operating system to
delete its self.
I still miss windows xp. My xp crashed so now i own a computer
with vista. Reading this makes it even harder on me.
Thanks for the info though.
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Post August 9th, 2008, 1:06 pm

why dont you upgrade to xp? lol ;P
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Post August 11th, 2008, 8:30 pm

How this for a vista glitch.

Ok so I'm just doing the usual i have 31 notepads open(i keep a lot of notes) 23 folders open(i work on a lot of things at the same time) and 9 tabs open in Mozilla Firefox.(yes i do this every day without problem or system lag and still do)I use the view windows stacked side by side feature allot i had used it quite a few times that day.(It actually helps me chose what window i need in notepad)So then i go to my start bar and goto do it again but this time when i do it the whole screen gos black and then its normal again so i try to goto my start bar and then the start bar jumps to the top of my screen as soon as my mouse touches it and half of my icons disappear then the whole os goes into some kind of crazy glitch/programming error and the screen starts flashing on and off. Then everything goes back to normal and then the same scenario i went through this about 5 time then i gave up and manually shut off my computer and turned it back on. It currently operates normal but the icons were messed up example
Mozilla Firefox=Norton internet security icon folder=setup icon.
I restarted it again today and it is normal now i ran a hijackthis and checked it and there was nothing bad on my hijackthislog so hows that for a windows vista glitch.Pretty crazy wouldn't you say?
If you know what would cause this I'm open for an explanation. :P
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Post August 11th, 2008, 11:26 pm

I have vista, had no choice really ... It was part of my work package ... but I am moving to my new work in 2 weeks and then I'm getting a new laptop with XP on it ... So hopefully in these two weeks I don't have anyone breaking in to my computer ...
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Post August 18th, 2008, 1:59 am

Oooooops that's really bad. Microsoft will definitely do something for it in short time as they have closed the selling of XP
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Post August 22nd, 2008, 2:01 am

How about a re title of this thread to "Vista: Useless"
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