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Re: Microsoft Makes Concessions to Security Software Makers
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:15:09 +1300
Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu to "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah":
Yeah, I know. But so far it has tended to be after the release. I suspect that has more to do with laziness on the part of the blackhats than anything else ...Amen. It's not worth the effort to write exploits against non-existent targets.
Well, a lot of folk (reputedly more than any previous release) are using various Vista beta/RC releases, and you can be sure that not all of them took heed of (or even read) the warning that being pre-release software it should not be used in production, or sensitive (aka "Internet connected") situations... They still wouldn't make _much_ of a target though, but the bigger issue is that if you were a black hat with a Vista exploit, releasing it before Vista shipped would guarantee that the vuln would either be fixed as a last minute update/patch before the code finally went RTM, or if you made the release after RTM, the first thing Vista would do after going online was snag and install a critical security update from WU/etc that took you out of the game... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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