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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: Rik on November 25, 2010, 09:47
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El Reg (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/24/windows_0day_report/) reports that:
Antimalware provider Prevx has sounded the alarm about a serious vulnerability in fully patched versions of Microsoft Windows. It allows attackers to execute malware, even in versions designed to withstand such exploits.
Technical details have already been published on a Chinese forum, leading to speculation that it won't be long before attackers exploit it in the wild.
“This could potentially become a nightmare due to the nature of the flaw,” Prevx researcher Marco Giuliani wrote here. “We expect to see this exploit being actively used by malwares very soon – it's an opportunity that malware writers surely won't miss.”
The flaw resides in the win32k.sys part of the Windows kernel and results from an API known as NtGdiEnableEUDC that fails to properly vet user input for harmful content. Attackers can exploit the bug to redirect overwritten return memory addresses to malicious code, which is then executed with kernel mode privileges. As a result, the flaw allows even users or processes with limited privileges to execute code will elevated rights.
“Being a privilege escalation exploit, it bypasses by design even the protection given by the User Account Control technology implemented in Windows Vista and Windows 7,” Giuliani said. “All Windows XP/Vista/7 both 32 and 64 bit are vulnerable to this attack.”
Microsoft "is aware of the issue and it is under investigation," according to a statement, which a spokeswoman attributed to Jerry Bryant, Group Manager of the company's Response Communications.
Bring back the BBC Micro!
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:bawl:
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Exactly.
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And today Sky News claims that criminal gangs have got hold of Stuxnet and which may shut down power stations and hospitals. This is very bad news for all of us. :bawl:
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:eeek:
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And today Sky News claims that criminal gangs have got hold of Stuxnet and which may shut down power stations and hospitals. This is very bad news for all of us. :bawl:
go get a 12 gauge shotgun for all the law abiding people
Wouldnt take long to open them back up
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And today Sky News claims that criminal gangs have got hold of Stuxnet and which may shut down power stations and hospitals. This is very bad news for all of us. :bawl:
Sky News = Fox News = scaremongering w**kers
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go get a 12 gauge shotgun for all the law abiding people
"on a road from Canada - welcome to the USA, have you brought your gun?" :devil:
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"on a road from Canada - welcome to the USA, have you brought your gun?" :devil:
LOL
Its called a safety measure against thugs and criminals lol
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Does that include all politicians? :o:
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Well Rik according to our constitution that was the idea of allowing the people to have guns to protect themselves from a Govt that decided we couldn't be free
They believed an armed society was a free society
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And yet the system still produces a Palin. ;)
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All country's make mistakes every now and then lol
You can have her if you want her
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she's a big friend of Kim Jong-il so I'd send her on a fact finding mission :)x
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All country's make mistakes every now and then lol
You can have her if you want her
Was that in the biblical sense? ;D
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Was that in the biblical sense? ;D
All I can say is if she immigrates we would be better off
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A belated happy Thanksgiving, Davy. :) Shall we say North Korea?
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happy thanksgiving to you to rik
Even though you dont really celebrate it
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I'd be interested to know what a typical Thanksgiving menu is, Davy, compared to Christmas Day (when we mainly eat turkey).
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For me Rik it usually is and most people do the same
Roasted turkey
Baked Ham(glazed)
Bread Stuffing( cornbread or white bread)
mashed potatoes
Turkey gravy
Sweet potatoes
peas
Green beans
jellied cranberry sauce
and for desert
Pies
Apple
pumpkin
blackberry
sweet potatoe pie
banana pudding
for Christmas I usually do about the same
Of course I live alone and mainly do it for my girfriend and a few of my family
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Can we come, Dave? :D
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Sounds lovely Dave. I'm very fond of sweet potato. 8-)
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Can we come, Dave? :D
come ahead clive
of corse it will be cold leftovers by the time you get here :laugh:
I make a real butter sauce to top my sweet potatoes with a grand dish in itself
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Do Americans not make roast potatoes as we do here, Dave, I've never seen them, it always seems to be mash.
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they do roast potatoes in Canada... but normally of the sweet potato kind.
For thanksgiving (US) last year we had curry, I was in Puerto Rico (which is of course a US territory) with astronomers - and astronomers love indian food.
As for Canadian thanksgiving this year (which is of course earlier):
Turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberries, veg and some cheese thing (which was made for me cause I don't eat the first thing on the list). Wa yummy.
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You should pop round while you're home, Sam, I'm sure Sue could come up with something suitable. ;)
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we do roast or bake potatoes rik
I usually have one with a steak
I like mine with butter but many like them with sour cream and chices
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You should pop round while you're home, Sam, I'm sure Sue could come up with something suitable. ;)
Well t'other one wants me eating meat.... so suitable is never approved off ;)
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;D
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we do roast or bake potatoes rik
I usually have one with a steak
I like mine with butter but many like them with sour cream and chices
Thanks, Dave, I just never seem to see them on US programmes featuring food, so I wondered if they were peculiar to us.
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Thanks, Dave, I just never seem to see them on US programmes featuring food, so I wondered if they were peculiar to us.
Your Welcome Rik
the movies have a tendency not to show life as it is
Many foods we eat are the same as yours just called by a different name
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Two nations divided by a common language, eh? ;)
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Not to mention a drop of water...
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Bloody big drop. ;D
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;D
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;D