Ask Your Vista Questions Here.

i see that i could not get rid of the box's..its some thing with trying to copy and paste off there site.

fixed it..had to copy into works and then copy it from works to here
enjoy

 

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What, are you lot STILL on about this ?
Just accept it, vista will suck for anyone that likes the freedom to (fill in the blank*] with their computer.
And even if people crack the stream and media protections and DRM schemes, microsucks will KEEP ON PATCHING THEM.
Why the hell else would the RIAA and MPAA endorse this new OS so fully, and pay some of the advertising for it ? *yes, they actually did that, google it*.

Anyone who doesn't get it yet should just buy vista and STFU.
And don't come here complaining afterwards either, i'll personally make sure there will be at least 20 posts saying "we told you so".

*guess you can tell the vacation i took invigorated me and made me hate microsoft even more*

 

The_Fiend
I see someone needs a hug and to dip noobs into the sun ^^

 

when dan's right, he's right. and right now, he's right. right? right.

 

Auslander
0-o
stop summoning aniem girls in my head that say dim/catchy thigns that rime...at least the one that ends all sentances in desu is gone...for now....


damnit..I added another word to FF spell checker....other than replaceging the file itself can you edit words in it?

 

if ye get VISTA-POOP this is what ye have to do to use it
a RIAA and MPAA,studios and microsoft kiss arse..

 

hurry up and get vista and a piece of cake..

Windows Trojan masquerades as Vista hack
Pirates sink 'selves
By Gavin Clarke → More by this author
Published Wednesday 6th December 2006 14:34 GMT

A week after Windows Vista's official launch hackers have devised their first attack, targeting pirates trying to install illegal copies of Microsoft's operating system.

A supposed Windows Vista crack called Windows Vista All Versions Activation 21.11.06 is reportedly doing the rounds, offering those tempted by the chance of sticking it to Microsoft the ability to install illegal versions of Windows Vista.

However, the software is not a Windows Vista crack and pirates get something they didn't expect - installation of a Trojan called PSW.Win32.LdPinch.aze - something with a "high" threat level.

Apparently, most anti-virus scanners can recognise the Trojan, but NOD32 and the latest software from Norton won't.

The installer follows in the footsteps of a Windows XP hack circulated by the devils0wn group in 2001, which allowed users to bypass product activation of Windows XP.

Windows Vista is currently available for download only to customers on Microsoft's volume licensing deals and won't become generally available until January. The Trojan would therefore likely hit certain business users and those working in businesses passing on copies to friends, family, or colleagues.

Worryingly for business users in general, though, is the fact the Windows Vista DVD has been designed to make it easy for third parties' software to be inserted with the operating system for mass distribution. That potentially lets hackers insert their code just as easily as Microsoft partners.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/06/windows_vista_trojan/

 

Zippy, if you so much as attempt to hug me, i'll whack you over the head with my 12-pound skateboard.
And yes, i could do with some sun, all i saw was rain.
You'd think creaky would at least have sent me to jamaica on that 2 week vacation, but noooooo, he had to send me to russia... ;-)

 

Methinks it must have been running Windows ME.

 

What's Ubuntu?

 

a linxu distro.

 

Why do you keep saying that? Non Homo-Sapiens cannot use the keyboard, and neither do they have such a good sense of humor!

EDIT: BTW, is ubuntu free?

 

Yes.

 

Does anyone know this?

Vista kernel fix 'worse than useless'
Microsoft has modified Windows Vista to prevent a high-profile exploit demonstrated at security conferences this summer but the fix creates as many problems as it solves, according to the security researcher who identified the original problem.

The bug, demonstrated by Joanna Rutkowska of security firm Coseinc, created a possible mechanism for hackers to bypass security protection built into 64-bit versions of Vista in order to inject potentially hostile code into the kernel of prototype versions of Windows. This so-called "pagefile attack" defeated a feature called Vista kernel protection.

Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 frustrates this attack by blocking write-access to raw disk sectors for user mode applications, even if they are executed with elevated administrative rights. Rutkowska writes that Microsoft's fix is fraught with difficulties because it prevents legitimate applications, such as disk editors and recovery tools, from functioning without their own signed kernel-level driver. Hackers might be able to hijack such legitimate drivers so all Microsoft has done has created extra work for developers in displacing - but not resolving - the problem.

During a presentation at the Black Hat conference in August, Rutkowska explained two other approaches Microsoft might take in defeating the page-file attack as well as highlighting the problems with simply blocking write-access to raw disk sectors for user mode applications. "Microsoft actually decided to ignore those suggestions and implemented the easiest solution, ignoring the fact that it really doesn’t solve the problem," she writes.

Keep it up, Microsoft!