Re: Microsoft announce most secure OS on the planet

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

For the sake of argument, and in their defense, none of yesterday's
vulnerabilities apply to IE8, and the IE vulnerabilities all exploit in
the context of the logged-in user which, in Vista, is likely to be
less-privileged (unless the user/admin is a doofus)

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Alex Lanstein
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:50 PM
To: funsec
Subject: Re: [funsec] Microsoft announce most secure OS on the planet

Takes some chutzpah to put out a release like that when they knew this
was coming:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-014.mspx


quispiam lepidus wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Larry Seltzer
<larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:
> > I guess it was just a typo, but in fact Vista is at SP1
> >
> > Larry Seltzer
> > eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> > http://security.eweek.com/
> > http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
> > Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> > larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com
> I guess that explains how Vista SP2 is the most secure OS on the
planet ;)
> Vista SP2 is at the RC (release candidate) stage atm.
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-- 
Regards,

Alex Lanstein
Network/Systems Architect
FireEye, Inc.
http://blog.fireeye.com
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