Re: PSA: Windows PCs face 'huge' virus threat: 1990 - Present

There needs to be severe prosecution for anyone that creates malicious
software. I would suggest a mandatory 5 year term in a white collar prison.
After all, malicious software/viruses costs companies millions of dollars
per year. Mandatory jail terms would be a good deterrent.

"Martin Brown" <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Mij Adyaw wrote:
>
>> Why do these vulnerabilities continue to exist and be exploited in
>> Windoze? If I were Bill Gates, I would have a witch-hunt and find who did
>> not plug these holes and as a result, some heads would role.
>
> In a business culture where time to market is everything why do you expect
> it to be any different?
>
> This potential exploit has lain unnoticed for nearly two decades. It
> appears to be a quirky prehistoric interface intended to allow some
> antique version of pre-multitasking Doze to regain control of WMF print
> job rendering after an error/abort. That it can be subverted was only
> noticed very recently.
>
>> Maybe there would be less holes in the future.
>
> Or more likely a demoralised depleted workforce. Blame cultures never work
> to enforce or improve quality. They do the exact opposite, encourage
> production of CYA documents and the best people will leave first. I have
> seen enterprises go down this route. It isn't pretty.
>
> Blame free culture exists in aerospace where failures are investigated to
> establish the root cause and prevent it from happening again. That really
> does help to avoid future disasters by sharing knowledge of usability,
> design, engineering or operational failure. And even then the suits spend
> a huge amount of time with lawyers trying to disguise any corporate
> liability.
>
> Much as I dislike MickeySofts cavalier attitude to software bugs I don't
> think there was much they could have done about this one. However, it is
> lamentable that they haven't moved a bit faster to plug the breach or
> certify one of the unofficial patches now circulating.
>
> I know of corporate sites still wide open to this vulnerability. And lots
> of Happy New Year msgs with pictures attached will get opened no matter
> how many warnings get issued. Users assume that their AV will save them
> but it may not in this particular instance.
>
> Regards,
> Martin Brown
>
>> "John Steinberg" <seesig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:030120061106446611%seesig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>>Phil Wheeler wrote:
>>>
>>>>Odd name for a Virus, John :-)
>>>
>>>Touché, Phil. 8^)
>>>
>>>More seriously, this isn't a virus but rather a vulnerability. An open
>>>door, a hole in the OS that can be exploited through the use of
>>>malicious code, if you will. In an ever increasingly wired world, OS
>>>exploits become gigundous problems, for all of us.
>>>
>>>MS details it more comprehensively here:
>>>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx


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