Insecure when run on Vista, thanks to symbolic links
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| I was surprised to learn a few weeks ago that Vista added symlink support
| to Windows. Whereas I found people rejoicing at the new feature, I
| anticipate with dread a number of vulnerability announcements in
| products that worked fine under XP but are now insecure in the
| presence of symlinks in the file system.
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http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/weblogs/pmeunier/general/post-85/
Why is Microsoft hell-bent on ruining its reputation?
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| Microsoft had multiple chances to release a patch for the ANI
| (Animated Cursor) Exploit in the months of January, February,
| and March but failed to release any patches for the vulnerability
| that was originally disclosed privately to Microsoft on December
| 20, 2006. Now we're getting an emergency patch today, one week
| before the regular patch cycle, and Microsoft seems to think
| that this is a success story on its "quick" response to this
| zero-day exploit.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=460
Downtime in 2007 for the Alexa top 20 websites
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| These are the 20 most popular websites in the United States,
| according to Alexa. In other words, they have tons of visitor
| traffic. How are they holding up under that pressure?
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http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=116
Microsoft.com 15th (out of 20).
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