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Vista Filled With Security Flaws

All sorts of Serious Security Flaws have been discovered in VISTA, firms are re-thinking the upgrade.

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Founders Note:
A few years late.. and few security patches too little.

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WAYYY Overhyped

and I thought *my* submissions were overhyped :-)

This article mentions one Internet Explorer 7 escalation of privileges. In other words:

Nothing to see here; move along.
By hopeseekr at Dec 25 2006 - 04:42

6 Flaws Detected

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Microsoft that it had also found that flaw, as well as five other vulnerabilities, including one serious error in the software code underlying the company’s new Internet Explorer 7 browser

That is a total of 6 flaws..

The escalation of privileges by itself is enough... who knows what the other 5 security errors discovered are (and this is way super early into Vista's Release).

By The Founder at Dec 25 2006 - 13:26