Windows Loophole Spawns Zombies Which Attack the Web 13397

Sinister Midget on Sunday 30 October 2005 12:00

Somebody has already told them about the idiotic loopholes. He even wrote a formal report about it. Microsoft continue with their arrogance and it doesn't seem like they even care about the havoc their mistakes have wreaked in cyberspace.

Speaking of starting from scratch,

REDMOND, Wash. ? Jim Allchin, a senior Microsoft Corp. executive, walked into Bill Gates?s office here one day in July last year to deliver a plantshell about the next generation of Microsoft Windows.

?It?s not going to work,? Mr. Allchin says he told the Microsoft chairman. The new version, code-named Longhorn, was so complex its writers would never be able to make it run properly.

The news got even worse: Longhorn was irredeemable because Microsoft engineers were building it just as they had always built software. Throughout its history, Microsoft had let thousands of programmers each produce their own piece of computer code, then sbreastched it together into one sprawling program. Now, Mr. Allchin argued, the jig was up. Microsoft needed to start over.

Read the last sentence again, if needed.

They recently chased some spammers and prosecuted them. What a crusade Microsoft is doing... a service to society, eh? Needless to mention, it is often hijacked Windows machines that despatch that spam (see article). Others would also explain to you why, from an historical viewpoint, Microsoft encouraged the rise of spam too. I am too young to be aware of it.

The law among ISP's must change. Here at the University we disconnect people who are hosts to active viruses that scan ports. The same policy should apply to people whose machine is susceptible to hijackers. Period.

Roy

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