Its sad that there are some people who work 24/7 specifically to make life
difficult for computer users. No matter what is created to protect us, some
jackass is going to try to break it.
--
Mike Hall - MVP
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx
"occam" <occam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> http://www.neowin.net/news/main/07/1...-vulnerability
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> What was not supposed to happen in Windows Vista apparently has: Despite a
> layer of protection that was supposed to prevent against processes
> elevating their own privileges, Microsoft now says someone found a way to
> do it.
>
> A Microsoft security bulletin written earlier this week but publicized
> this morning cites security software engineers SkyRecon Systems as having
> discovered a way for processes in both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows
> Vista to elevate their own privilege to administrator level. This
> discovery would likely be the latest in several months to thwart the
> designs of PatchGuard, Microsoft's series of measures for innovating the
> design of the operating system kernel in the interest of thwarting the
> most common attacks that