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Microsoft cerebrates fifteen years of poor security | |
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| Time: 09:13 EST/14:13 GMT | News Source: the inquirer | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim | ||
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That the Blaster worm should spread as rapidly as it did was testament to one thing only, the poor security in Microsoft's software. In the first few months of last year Microsoft spent about eight weeks in what was reportedly an intense effort to improve the security of their software. And what a joke that turned out to be, because within a just few months we were seeing security alerts about Microsoft products that had supposedly been thoroughly checked and corrected. | ||
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| #1 By 10802 (66.131.219.100) at 8/19/2003 11:34:10 AM |
| Windows XP should by default automatically install critical updates without any user intervention. |
| #2 By 16451 (63.227.226.13) at 8/19/2003 1:58:44 PM |
| http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11579-2003Aug18.html |
| #3 By 13030 (198.22.121.120) at 8/19/2003 2:37:21 PM |
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#5: "MS can't win this PR game."
Yes they can. They need to concentrate more on stabilizing and securing existing products, and slowing down release cycles. #6: "Maybe MS can permanently set the desktop wallpaper to red and the have the words "You're in danger of be infected - click here to update" until people update the latest patches." Damn. I don't want my desktop wallpaper to say that every Wednesday on every computer I own... ;-) |
| #4 By 17807 (67.4.93.137) at 8/19/2003 5:55:19 PM |
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#9 "Yes they can. They need to concentrate more on stabilizing and securing existing products, and slowing down release cycles."
Windows XP is almost 2 years old now. It's backwards compatible with probably 95% of all the stuff that was designed to run on Windows 95 and newer. Would you prefer Microsoft follow Redhat's lead and put out a new version every 6 months and break binary compatability every year to 18 months? |
| #5 By 10022 (24.169.194.86) at 8/19/2003 7:12:15 PM |
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considering the risk to national security that these people do pose should be enought to force MS and the gov to require auto patching for the masses of PC illiterates!
Ask any one with a month help desk support and they will tell 99% of the people who call dont know anything beyond email, Internet and Word (if even that!) having an advanced option to turn it off is fine. I agree with everyone that said that MS needs to advertise more to the average users. If not MS then at least a community service type thing from the industry. And although XP could ship 10x more secure than it does by defualt, its not the only problem. Are there any highspeed ISPs providing a real, hardware based firewall that is actually set up half way secure?? (and dont say AOL, becuase they cause more harm than good). Or what about the application developers that STILL do not understand the basics of Windows 2000/XP security! The best thing the government could do right now- for the economy and security- is to get everyone to get rid of 9x. Although alot of the newer exploits have effected NT/2K/XP, there are more 9x machine out there than all of the other 3 combinded. Give everyone a tax break that can prove they have a "secured" computer (firewall, an OS that isnt in a know flawed state, Virus protection) all verified to be up to date and make it an ongoing, year after year thing. |
| #6 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at 8/19/2003 7:43:33 PM |
| interesting idea RoySalisbury. Hype the windowsupdate site... not the bug(s) directly. That might actually work. |
| #7 By 17996 (68.115.13.232) at 8/19/2003 10:58:19 PM |
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"In fact in 2002 Windows had the dubious honour of accounting for 87% of all virus infections reported to the Australian office of the Sophos anti-virus group."
Well considering that Windows has a (purported) 95% of market share, having only 87% of all virus infections on that platform doesn't sound so bad to me. |
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