Microsoft fixes 19-year-old Windows bug
 

Unfucking believable. No wonder Windows is shyte. Windows users may wish to update.


(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp issued patches on Tuesday to fix a bug in its Windows operating system that remained undiscovered for 19 years.

The bug, which is present in every version of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onward, allows an attacker to remotely take over and control a computer.

IBM Corp's cybersecurity research team discovered the bug in May, describing it as a "significant vulnerability" in the operating system.

"The buggy code is at least 19 years old and has been remotely exploitable for the past 18 years," IBM X-Force research team said in its blog on Tuesday.

Source: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/mi...--finance.html

I guess the NSA stopped paying them to keep it open.

/wehateporn

LOL. Budget cuts from the Illuminati Lizard Kings.

That's crazy sounding.

Is there anything at all in Win 8 that is even remotely the same as Windows 95? I thought that the entire framework of the OS was changed with XP anyway. And certainly changed again with Vista and Win 7.

So how could there be even one piece of valid code left from Windows 95?

I had a good zero day for wordpress that disappeared without any advisory or even a mention in their update notes.

Everything is still Windows 3.11, only thing that changed is the user interface / graphics

One thing is a constant with Windows...its always a piece of shit doing 70% of what they claim and 50% of that at sub par levels... weird you and I thought of 3.11 as well.

Yeah, Robbie. it is pretty weird. 19 year old code? Reminds me of the cobalt days back in the 80's.

Thats hillarious

yet we all use it and get by fine...

well, some of us more than others clearly.

The shellshock unix bug was around since 1989 and only patched this year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shells...oftware_bug%29

It can happen to any system, even open source.

Sounds more like backdoor than bug :2 cents: