Flaws detected in Vista

[dbarrow]

http://news.com.com/Flaws+detected+in+Vista/2100-1002_3-6145874.html?tag=cd.top

Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month. ...

[athomsfere]

The one the Russian company found (Didn't read to see if it was mentioned) was a very minor error for the majority of users (especially private users).

It allowed a low privileged user to install malware and promote themselves to ADMIN, the flaw can't be used remotely. Haven't heard about the supposed other 5 yet... I wouldn't be surprised if they were just as minor or alot bigger.

[Tortanick]

Wrong athom, that is a poteuntually serous issue! if you combine it with say, the Internet explorer error, IE running as a normal user turns itself into an admin, then causes havok.

[athomsfere]

Where is info on the IE error. From somewhere better then CNET would be great...

[Tortanick]

don't know, I got it from CNET.

[jcampi]

Oh, boy. Here we go again with MS bashing. They say this crap about every OS upgrade MS rolls out. How come each one is better than the last??? Hmm, let me see. Windows 3.1 was a quantum leap from DOS. Windows 95 blew the doors off of the old 3.1. Windows 98 honed the OS and refined it. Windows 2000 took strides to make the OS more stable and reliable. XP is such a vast improvement. I look forward to Vista.