This amused me - Vista "security flaw"

[Ardesco]

my personal fave is:

cd /
rm -rf

amazin how many people have no concept of what it does

[expat]

fdisk is much more dangerous...

So is any tool in the wrong hands.

[Churchill]

fdisk is much more dangerous...

[wendigo100]

It's been a looooong time since that actually did what it says. Well, without asking first, anyway.

I'm sure it is - I've just been trying to remember the last time I discussed FORMAT C:, and it was 1991 on a contract in Birmingham, as a wet-behind-the-ears contractor playing a practical joke.

[expat]

Hmmm...

I wonder what the VISTA response will be to the following standard programming terms...

"Oh tulip!"

"Will you just **** off?"

"bastard!"

"Oh **** not again!"

and so on...

"Of course I'm only using it for evaluation purposes!"

[Churchill]

Hmmm...

I wonder what the VISTA response will be to the following standard programming terms...

"Oh tulip!"

"Will you just **** off?"

"bastard!"

"Oh **** not again!"

and so on...

[expat]

vista
Should try harder

indeed!

[vista]

Not possible

everybody knows VR doesn't work, format c or shutdown will almost certainly result in Outlook Express launching itself that or more likely nothing happening at all.

[expat]

Does "Format C:" still work? I was thinking of trying it to prove that it doesn't, but, um...

It's been a looooong time since that actually did what it says. Well, without asking first, anyway.

[wendigo100]

Does "Format C:" still work? I was thinking of trying it to prove that it doesn't, but, um...

[DimPrawn]

I can only spend 23 hours a day on CUK due to increased workloads. Some posts will be missed.

[Sockpuppet]

http://forums.contractoruk.com/threa...tml#post185380

Paddy beat you to it.

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6320865.stm


Vista was launched to consumers on Tuesday
Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders.
Vista can respond to vocal commands and concern has been raised about malicious audio on websites or sent via e-mail.

In one scenario outlined by users a MP3 file of voice instructions was used to tell the PC to delete documents.

Microsoft said the exploit was "technically possible" but there was no need to worry.

The firm has pointed out that in order for the flaw to be exploited the speech recognition feature would need to be activated and configured and both microphone and speakers would have to be switched on.

"The exploit scenario would involve the speech recognition feature picking up commands through the microphone such as 'copy', 'delete', 'shutdown', etc. and acting on them," a Microsoft security researcher wrote on the team's official blog.


The fix is to put cotton wool over the microphone and a shout "Don't listen to them nasty hackers Boris*"


* My PC is called Boris