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HoboBen
Created : 15 January 2007
 

Hey, Microsoft

Comedy
Hey,

The laptop just informed me that Microsoft had a security update for Vector Markup Language... Apparently some people can use malicious vectors to take control of the operating system.

... Uh, yeah.

That sounds a bit strange... Why would some vectors cause such problems?

 

Comments
Monday, 15 January 2007, 15:20
power mousey
 		Apples First and current logo appears before hoboben.

Even the ghost of Sir Issac Newton appears
and says:

'why dost sit there?
get up man and shut thee windows.
here, have an Apple from me'

the ghostly apparition vanishes.

you shut and lock your remaining doors and windows too.


cheers,
power mousey
Monday, 15 January 2007, 17:07
hyruleknight
 		in theory you can use anything to hack a computer with enough hard work

also buy a mac, a new one anyway
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 12:17
HoboBen
 		Still, why would a simple graphics format that'd be nothing but a list of points and colours gain any sort of ability to communicate over the internet and modify files?
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 12:39
hyruleknight
 		why the frak are you asking us, we don't care. we just reply "get a mac" or "use linux you fanboy(hurray for linux)"
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 13:25
HoboBen
 		Well, it was a slightly rhetorical question.. Maybe I should have written at as "a simple graphics format that is nothing but a list of points and colours should not gain any sort of ability to communicate over the internet and modify files" full stop.

But, hey, I was slightly interested... and I've tried to Google for info, and there's fault in Internet Explorer buffer overflow thiniges... Which lead to the problem and enabled sites to force spyware down IE.

Maybe you weren't interested, but don't decide that for everyone. Maybe no-one's interested beyond perhaps at the most a mild "huh" at the beginning... But they just wouldn't reply, and that'd be fine.

Well, thanks for your polite reply. Good day to you.
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 13:39
power mousey
 		hey hobo,

I didn't even know about this Vector Markup Language. Nor that it was vulernable to attacks.

on my first post....I was joking and was suggesting going to Mac.

but hey I took the time to read this:

IEBlog:
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 13:42
HoboBen
 		Hey, thanks for the link.

You know, following some of the links there... is Microsoft taking ages to load for you too, or have they locked out my iMac?
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 14:03
power mousey
 		yeah it is.

Micosoft is taking ages to load. But I guess its a little better than the AOL Browser. That much for it, I guess.

I think I'm going to Firefox or Mozilla for my browser.
Sergio and Matt,at work, told me to get Firefox. And also suggested getting DSL or Broadband.
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 14:23
power mousey
 		whoa!,

wait a minute.

hobo, I read somewhere in a book on hacking of what you were saying about overflow buffer errors and some of the things that some hackers do to exploit them and aad their own malicious code.
I don't remember the book but it was over at Borders book store. And along with that....those list of points and colors can be manipulated and accessed with other lists of codes that represent points and colors but with a read/write program open them up to do 'bad things' with the app in question.

dang, I think you and stealth are right. I think you should know a little or some about hacking, who and what hackers are, and some of the ways and whys they hack.
Definitely will go to that site that stealth pointed out and start learning and cracking.

cheers,