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Microsoft issues tool to repel Windows shortcut attacks | |
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| Time: 07:21 EST/12:21 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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However, the tool, like a manual procedure that Microsoft recommended last week, is only a makeshift defense, one that many users may resist applying since it makes much of Windows, including the desktop, taskbar and Start menu, almost unusable. The company posted a "Fix it" tool on its support site that automatically disables the displaying of all Windows shortcut files. Microsoft stepped users through the same technique last week in its initial security advisory, but told them then that they had to edit the Windows registry. Most Windows users are reluctant to monkey with the registry, since a single error can cripple the computer. |
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| #1 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:55:24 PM |
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"Most Windows users are reluctant to monkey with the registry, since a single error can cripple the computer."
Don't tell that to those Windows tweakers out there;) |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, July 22, 2010 09:45:49 AM |
| This is the best MS can do? Disable shortcuts? Really?? I'm surprised they didn't advise everyone to just turn off their PCs until further notice. What a joke. Wait, jokes are supposed to be funny, which this certainly is not. |
| #3 By 2201 (82.45.132.196) at Thursday, July 22, 2010 09:49:49 AM |
| #2, this is a quick workaround while Microsoft are developing a proper patch. You DO know that Microsoft have been developing a patch for a while now? |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:26:58 AM |
| #3: Well no, I don't know that. I would assume it, but then I read something this morning about how they aren't sure they can do it without breaking things. Whatever. It's Windows. The own-your-box holes will *never* stop coming. |
| #5 By 16797 (99.236.143.109) at Sunday, July 25, 2010 08:23:43 PM |
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#4 "It's Windows"
What other system do you know that is free of own-your-box holes? You know that pwn2own competition? This year, Mac was, again, hacked first through drive-by exploit in Safari. Total control of hacked Mac, 4th year in a row I think. Here's what that guy said when asked about Linux: "No, Linux is no harder, in fact probably easier, although some of this is dependent on the particular flavor of Linux you’re talking about. The organizers don’t choose to use Linux because not that many people use it on the desktop. The other thing is, the vulnerabilities are in the browsers, and mostly, the same browsers that run on Linux, run on Windows." One can argue that it is safer to use those other systems, but it's for other reasons... |
