Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Patch Tuesday Lineup

Eric Schultze, chief security architect for Minneapolis based patch management company Shavlik Technologies, said the vulnerability that affects Vista is due to computer code carried over from Windows NT 4.0, a legacy version of Windows that predates even Windows 98.

"Microsoft has patched this particular component multiple times before," Schultze said. Given that Microsoft did not have time to do a wholesale re-write of Windows with Vista, "we're bound to see 10-15 more of these legacy vulnerabilities in Vista in this year alone," he said.

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