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Security Watch Special: Windows XP SP2 Security Center Spoofing Threat | |
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| Time: 03:02 EST/08:02 GMT | News Source: PC Magazine | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 promises to raise the security bar for the sometimes beleaguered operating system. Unfortunately, one of the new features could be spoofed so that it reports misleading information about system security, or worse, lets a malicious program watch for an opportunity to do damage without being detected. The feature is the Windows Security Center (WSC), which displays the status ( (Figure 1) )of the key elements of your defenses: Firewall, Updates, and Antivirus. If your firewall has been disabled, or your antivirus is out of date, that news will display here. The information is stored in an internal database managed by the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) subsystem built into Windows. | ||
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| #1 By 7797 (63.76.44.17) at 8/30/2004 12:39:51 PM |
| fast_math, your experience with gentoo is unfortunate but understandable. The claim that the package manager gives you only what you want is not FUD though. If you take the time to learn how to use it then it does everything it promises to do. If you don't want to take the time to learn it or are unable to do so even with the vast amount of available resources and helpful community then Gentoo simply isn't for you :). If you have any specific problems with portage, I look forward to readig your detailed post about the issue in the gentoo forums. |
| #2 By 7797 (63.76.44.17) at 8/30/2004 12:45:31 PM |
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fast_math mplayer and vlc don't install by default. Why would you install it if it has known vulnerabilities?
Not to mention that you could override portage settings to install the fixed version if you really wanted to. Also, had you done more research you could have looked at the ebuild and found out that the ebuild of the vulnerable version contains the patches for the buffer overflow fixes so you never got a vulnerable version to begin with. Thanks for the FUD though. "(forgime me, linux tends to fry the brains)" Troll This post was edited by tgnb on Monday, August 30, 2004 at 14:15. |
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