Windows Vista still Rife with Insecure Code

osxpetition writes "As noted in a News.com article, Symantec researchers have been testing the latest Microsoft Windows Vista build (Beta 2), and have found that the code is 'complete with new corner cases and defects' in the networking component. Symantec describes how Microsoft scrapped the old networking stack code from Windows XP in favour of newer, rewritten code. 'Microsoft has removed a large body of tried and tested code and replaced it with freshly written code.' Since January 2002, Microsoft has put a stronger emphasis on protecting PCs by attempting to implement stable, secure code into Windows XP and their new operating system. This latest report from Symantec brings attention to Microsoft's trustworthy computing campaign, and shows how it will be a long way before it is ready for the mainstream."

Too secure!

[eth00]

They figured out that the old network stack was starting to get too secure and not something they could live with! Not wanting to break the trend of security problems they went ahead and rewrote the code from scratch

And the solution?

[Anonymous Coward]

Symantec products wil lsecure it right up! How convenient!

Re:I wish I could mod this story -1 Redundant.

[__aaclcg7560]

You mean there's still hope for Sun Microsystems?

Outrage!

[Kesch]

'Microsoft has removed a large body of tried and tested code and replaced it with freshly written code.'

How dare they! Just when I know all the exploits in the old code, they make me go and have to discover all new bugs in their new code. Being a hacker is hard some days...

Re:beta

[__aaclcg7560]

No, it's the super-alpha-beta-gold-release-candidate build.

Re:beta

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't all Microsoft sofware ?

Best Quote from TFA...

[SloppyElvis]

people should understand the ramifications of a virgin network stack

Oh man! I can't even begin to think of a joke worthy of that setup...

Fun-factor

[Valacosa]

I'll bet the code got re-written from scratch because it's more fun and sexy to write new code than to fix problems in old code - and this time, dammit, it'll get written right!

(I can't take credit for the thought. JWZ says it somewhere on his site, though I don't have the time to find it.)

Windows Vista still Rife with Insecure Code

[kpang]

Windows Vista still Rife with Insecure Code

See what happens when you constantly tease it? Now it's got an inferiority complex. You people should be ashamed.

Re:Is this news?

[just_another_sean]

Curiously, both have dominant but benevolent personalities in charge...

That's the nicest thing I've ever heard anyone say about Theo! :-)

Re:beta

[jocknerd]

Yes, but once its released, then the buggy code from the beta miraculously fixes itself because Microsoft would never let buggy code get shipped.

Re:beta

[powerlord]

I try to only use the Vista Vapourware-2005 Edition.

Its the only one I've found to be compatible with Duke Nukem Forever RC1.

Re:Vista has been improving...

[Richard W.M. Jones]

I work as a tester at a large, well-known tech company. I started using Vista back in February of this year, and I've used one of the latest versions, 5474, recently. Here are the changes I've seen:
[better graphics, crashes a bit less, more widgets, file copying is a bit faster]

Sounds like it was really worth spending more money than the Apollo programme on then!

Rich.

definition of 'virgin network stack'

[Anonymous Coward]

Definition of virgin network stack:

* See Slashdot ;-)

Re:beta

[RobertLTux]

umm "But this is /. where penguins rule the {skies}." ------please replace with the word [seas] (penguins don't fly but they do swim very well)