Posts by stream_venom

Security bug bites 64-bit Windows 7

Not XP by far

Win 7 has many more security features that are not a part of XP or Vista for that. Like the fact that your user account doesn't run with system level privileges or the fact that firewall that is included has many more features and has been greatly improved. All the Aero theme is just a visual and feel upgrade. As far as the actual OS it's self Microsoft has been on a mission patenting lots of Linux apps that we linux users have enjoyed for a long time as well as implementing some *nix security features like the afore mentioned user running as the system root. Hence the annoying UAP that everyone turns off. I have always taken advantage of the fact that people hate to be disturbed and used that as a leverage point when popping Windows boxes at the local coffee shop. Turning Aero off will only free system resources that have been killing Windows boxes as of late. All that needed to be done in my opinion was to just secure XP and small visual cues needed to be changed. Aero is the reason I made to change full time over to Ubuntu.

Memory Randomization...haha

You all know that the randomization that Microsoft has claimed will protect you is not that great. If you do your own fuzzing of some processes that run on a 32 or 64 bit version of the newer (Vista and up) OS's you will find that only the last 4 bits are changed for the memory addresses. Then with that they have a limited range that they change through. This sucks for Microsoft because soon some one will write code that will exploit this security Feature/Flaw. This is why I choose Linux not due to some myth that it is more secure. I just have less attention and far fewer people shooting at my servers.