Comments on: Hackers Exploiting Unpatched DirectX Bug With Quicktime

By: KaBaL

KaBaL — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:10:50 +0000

The flaw really doesn’t hit that many target audiences though. As the majority of the populous running XP is going to have DirectX 9a installed. And I would assume the majority of business users aren’t going to have DirectX installed at all.

But regardless – it comes down to the same thing – don’t open attachments / links to things you don’t know what they are! PERIOD! Lack of user education will the downfall of our society.

By: Bogwitch

Bogwitch — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:18:11 +0000

Bought my wife a nice new Vaio yesterday, first thing I did was to rip Vista off it.
I’d like to say I installed Linux for her but alas, it is now WindowsXP.

I am a little suprised that M$ did not issue the patch for previous versions. I’m sure thay would want more users switching to Vista but any M$ insecurity reflects poorly on them and provides that anti-M$ brigade with more ammunition.
That said, I’m more suprised that M$ are actually putting much effort into Vista, I’m sure they have realised that it is just another WindowsME and should be focussing on getting Windows7 right.

By: T2t

T2t — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:11:35 +0000

I agree it seems like one more thing to encourage us to “upgrade” to vista.

By: Oki

Oki — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:58:22 +0000

Its strange how it was fixed in vista but no patch was released for the previous windows versions. It just looks like an attempt to get more users to switch to vista.