RE: Connecting to NetShare with Vista boxes...problem continues

Vista solves a lot of the security problems it's predecessors had. UAC
can severely limit exploit damage.

e.G. look at IE7 under Vista with it's protected mode - if you
successfully exploit IE, you can't even read the users documents. With
Firefox under Vista, or Firefox/IE under XP, a successful browser
exploits nets you full user rights, with access to all your personal
data.

Security is a good reason of moving to Vista - but there's no need for
haste.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Holden Tommy
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:19 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Connecting to NetShare with Vista boxes...problem continues

Well...hackers are surely working on Vista hacks (I would be surprised
if none exist already...) thinking a newer OS is more secure is a bad
security strategy IMO..


Thanks,
Tommy Holden


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+tommy.holden=hcahealthcare.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+tommy.holden=hcahealthcare.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:13 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Connecting to NetShare with Vista boxes...problem continues

On 5/31/07, Fleming, Greg (ED) <GFLEMING@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Funny, when I saw Aaron's post, I did some googling and assumed he was
referring to the "Vista Tranformation Pack", which promises to give

you

the look and feel of Vista without actually upgrading.

Available here for free (I haven't tried it myself):
http://www.windowsxlive.net/?p=361

no way I would trust something like this. The recent cyber attack on
Latvia by Russian nationalists was accomplished by many ( millions? )
of infected PCs worldwide being activated in a concerted DOS attack.
Presumably the hackers were paid for their services. Add to that the
money to be made intercepting and spoofing banking transactions on
those many infected PCs and you can see why the hackers benefit from
users staying with XP.

not saying of course that this product is hacker code, but I would not
be surprised to learn that hackers feed code and binaries to these
sorts of community efforts.

-Steve