31 Mar
2006
31 Mar
'06
20:31
On Thursday March 30 2006 21:51, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
Complete rubbish. Windows is a full fledged protected mode OS, applications are very much shielded from each other - yes, I believe Linux is superior but due to differences far more subtle then you are describing.
Look up shatter attacks on Windows. These are very dangerous attacks that cannot be fixed without Microsoft completely re-writing how Windows uses messages between applications. From what my hacker/security engineer friend tells me, this sounds exactly like what Andre was describing. -- ~R~ ---------------------------------------------------------- Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user!