[Spank-A-Thon]

Originally posted by mark0

Hey Spank can you put up some links to prove MS's bad program qualities?

Sure, I'll post a few links that deal only with Win XP.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-054 Invalid Universal Plug and Play Request can Disrupt System Operation

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-059 Unchecked Buffer in Universal Plug and Play can Lead to System Compromise

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-006Unchecked Buffer in SNMP Service Could Enable Arbitrary Code to be Run

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-008 XMLHTTP Control Can Allow Access to Local Files

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-017 Unchecked buffer in the Multiple UNC Provider Could Enable Code Execution (Q311967)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-029 Unchecked Buffer in Remote Access Service Phonebook Could Lead to Code Execution (Q318138)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-050 Certificate Validation Flaw Could Enable Identity Spoofing (Q329115)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-051 Cryptographic Flaw in RDP Protocol can Lead to Information Disclosure (Q324380)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-053 Buffer Overrun in SmartHTML Interpreter Could Allow Code Execution (Q324096)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-054 Unchecked Buffer in File Decompression Functions Could Lead to Code Execution (Q329048)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-055 Unchecked Buffer in Windows Help Facility Could Enable Code Execution (Q323255)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-060 Flaw in Windows XP Help and Support Center Could Enable File Deletion (Q328940)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-069 Flaw in Microsoft VM Could Enable System Compromise (810030)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-072 Unchecked Buffer in Windows Shell Could Enable System Compromise (329390)

Now some of the above security problems are of critical severity (M$'s words, not mine), others are not so important. But it took me 2 minutes to find descriptions of these flaws on the M$ website. This is for XP, the newest 'most secure' Windows yet...

These are not all of the problems with XP - as I said, I won't even get started on other M$ systems - but 'quality' products do not come with as many security holes as XP does... and these are only some of the flaws found thus far.

Windows NT4.0 is up to Service Pack 7!!!! Seven patches so far to fix flaws in NT!!!

Now, even with this small amount of info I have provided, how anyone can say M$ produce 'quality' products is beyond me!

- S