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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: BlckMgk on February 01, 2007, 06:02:39 PM

Title: Windows Vista Exploit
Post by: BlckMgk on February 01, 2007, 06:02:39 PM

haha.. gotta love outside the box hacking

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/02/01/1457252.shtml

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George Ou writes in his blog that he found a remote exploit for the new and shiny Vista Speech Control. Specifically, websites playing soundfiles can trigger arbitrary commands. Ou reports that Microsoft confirmed the bug and suggested as workarounds that either 'A user can turn off their computer speakers and/or microphone'; or, 'If a user does run an audio file that attempts to execute commands on their system, they should close the Windows Media Player, turn off speech recognition, and restart their computer.' Well, who didn't see that coming?"

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Title: Windows Vista Exploit
Post by: Airscrew on February 02, 2007, 09:23:31 AM

well that didnt take very long did it  :rolleyes:

Title: Windows Vista Exploit
Post by: Skuzzy on February 02, 2007, 09:35:35 AM

Actually, there was a Vista specific virus released during the Beta tests of Vista.