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How to gain access to websites that require latest Java installed
98 Guy wrote in :
Back in the summer of 2006 (the official end-of-support for win-98) Secunia.org was listing a grand total of 35 security issues with win-98 - most of which were patched and none of which were "critical". (and there were hundreds of security issues posted by secunia for win-2k/xp by July 2006) Interesting stat, given its dating. But maybe not so much W98 being stronger? (I think it is actually, if set up right), but the main reson might be that business used NT kernels, homes used 9X kernels, by M$'s design and intent, until at least three years later. Businesses would use many similar machines and configs, and likely have bigger rewards for abusers, so that might explain the stats. Security issues are only 'issues' when reported, after discovery. (Kind of why I advocate LnS as a watcher on the gate). Even OpenBSD is FULL of buffers ripe for overflow! They even had to audit and rewrite several parts of the base install to fix this. The real question is how many of such things get found and exploited by people willing to abuse them. I'm sure W98 had some, the abusers just quit looking for them when it was easier to get rewards from consistent systems in rich business environments. Of course, it must have seemed like manna from heaven when home users started taking such machines into their homes! Must have seemed funny to the script kiddies, seeing people take the horse into the house even before the enemy had put trojans into it. |
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How to gain access to websites that require latest Java installed
98 Guy wrote in :
The NT and 2k systems were periodically hit with worms. I remember that someone (or some group) was using one of our NT machines as a sort of private file-server. Private warez FTP? I think there was a lot of that. I always thought they'd got set up in hidden (cryptically named) directory trees on business machines by a person with direct access, but maybe it wasn't the only way to initiate one. Not easy to know if the machine even exists though, never mind has a chance of being useful while sitting undetected by its owners for months, unless set up by a person who DOES have direct physical access. You say 'we'... Are you sure it was an outsider? |
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How to gain access to websites that require latest Java installed
98 Guy wrote in :
For others, specifically win-98 users, who feel naked and vulnerable running their PC without a firewall, I guess those are the ones that I can't relate to and for which most of my comments are aimed at. Well, the best fix for that is to look and see if we are wearing any clothes. Some firewalls are horrible, but some are basically equivalent to the nerves that let us know if a shoe fell off. (Joking aside, I recently learned on a radio program that type 2 diabetes can cause numbness in feet, often leading to injuries, gangrene and amputations! A little awareness goes a LONG way, and the price of not having it can be huge). |
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How to gain access to websites that require latest Java installed
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
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