{"id":83,"date":"2006-09-19T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:33:57","slug":"another-day-another-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Another Day Another Exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1895,2017626,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eweek article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The newest zero-day flaw in the Microsoft Windows implementation of the Vector Markup Language is being used to flood infected machines with a massive collection of bots, Trojan downloaders, spyware and rootkits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We are talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/Microsoft_Vista_Most_Secure_OS_Ever\/1150366131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most secure OS ever built<\/a>, right? Then again hadn&#8217;t we heard the same line about Windows XP many moons ago? <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">I especially love this line at the bottom of the article.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&#8220;Microsoft has added signature-based detection to its Windows OneCare anti-virus product. A formal security advisory with pre-patch workarounds will be posted within the next 24 hours.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Time to pay up your subscription dues if you want to be protected from Microsoft&#8217;s own flaws. Sickening. But hey, if you <strong>choose<\/strong> to run Windows, you are getting exactly what you deserve.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an eweek article. &#8220;The newest zero-day flaw in the Microsoft Windows implementation of the Vector Markup Language is being used to flood infected machines with a massive collection of bots, Trojan downloaders, spyware and rootkits.&#8221; We are talking about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=83\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}