Critical Flaw Discovered in Windows XP/Server 2003 Discussion

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Windows XP and Server 2003 that allows hackers to take complete control of the infected machine.

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Lately everyone has had the "critical security failure" story.

Google "unintentionally" grabbed info with their Google Mapping cars.
Flash 10 was "critical" and people was urged to upgrade to 10.1 due to "critical security holes"
iPads and AT&T had the same problem with hackers and "security breaches"
Now Windows XP and Server 2003 the same.

Something tells me this is not just "breaking news" but a "passive" problem that has existed and just now people is starting to exploit it and others "discover" the "whoops my software is easily-hackable" problems...jeez...at this rate it'll be best to not use internet connection at all.

Tomorrow news:
"Office 2003 bugged, people urged to immediate upgrade to 2010"
"Photoshop bugged, people urged upgrade immediately"

And so on...are we really in a world were software is so defenseless and nobody actually nows until one person finds it out by mistake?

 

There's obviously more to it going on. E.g., Adobe Flash 10.1 has several new DRM algorithms compared to 10.0, and Adobe needs to get everybody to install 10.1 before content providers can start taking advantage of the DRM crap. I think a lot of these critical flaw stories are manufactured as an effort to force upgrades that otherwise wouldn't happen. E.g., how many people do you know who were happy to stick to WindowsXP, rather than try Vista or Win7?

 

Exactly what I was thinking...XP is bound to die in a few years, and people are very loyal to it, but if it is found a critical flaw people will run away from XP and get 7 (cause Vista was a disaster in marketing).

 

Yeah we heard about the article at work and wanted to migrate our Server 2003 serves onto 2008(or R2), but seeing as these are lots of the main servers, we haven't had time yet.

Oh well, regardless of context, OSes are coded by humans so they're bound ot have some flaws to reflect the creators.

 

I'm gonna have to kinda call crap on these theories. Critical Flaws are discovered in software all the time, yes including versions of Windows prior to Windows XP, and reported on just like this. 99.9 percent of the time, it doesn't cause a "forced mass exodus" to the newest stuff, simply because not everyone can get a machine capable of running it.

Microsoft will probably try to rapidly test a "Out of Cycle" patch then push it via windows update.