Holes found in Windows XP update (BBC)

[Endangered Specie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3583860.stm

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Barely hours after home users started securing their PCs with a key update for Windows XP, security experts have found ways around it.
The SP2 update makes XP less attractive to virus writers and malicious hackers by plugging widely exploited loopholes.

But discoveries by security firms Secunia and German company Heise show that some holes have been left open.

One bug lets malicious programs hide as images that automatically install and then run when Windows is re-started.
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[Poiuyt]

1. Gee, there's a surprise

Windows OS with a security flaw...who would have believed it.

[trotsky]

2. Right, because we all know that Macs have NEVER had a security hole.

Puh-lease.

[Nomad559]

3. Macs have NEVER had a security hole

Mac OS X security myth exposed

Windows is more secure than you think, and Mac OS X is worse than you ever imagined. That is according to statistics published for the first time this week by Danish security firm Secunia.

:evilgrin:

[Gman]

4. Windows XP is one big trojan anyway

the way it sends info to MS about what you do and your system. My guess is they left holes that, while exploitable, allow MS to continue their collection of data about your system.

Everyone should be using gpedit.exe to block that stuff.