eweek.com — Underground hackers are hawking zero-day exploits for Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system at USD 50000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro. The Windows Vista exploit - which has not been independently verified - was just one of many zero-days available for sale at an auction-style marketplace.
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lysdexiaDec 18, 2006
digg down
darthmdhDec 18, 2006
@ungamedplayerYour argument is fallacious. I dugg the story but care for Windows Vista like I care for genital herpes and other similar infectious diseases.Glad to see its keeping up the tradition of being "the most secure Windows evar!!1!!LOLZOMGPONIES!!1!"
ckufggid1Dec 18, 2006
Vista=Virus
chess007Dec 18, 2006
"why would u pay so much for it... there are VERY few copies of vista (compared to xp) out there and a patch for it will come not to long after you release your (worm/trojan/virus)" Why? Because unless security updates are forced upon users, the average user won't get the update. Of course, Microsoft should patch this before shipping out Vista, but Vista has already been shipped out for businesses (right?) So, its out there, without a patch for this. A sidenote: here's something I don't understand about the nerfarious web sites that put spyware on a computer. (i.e. through a trojan or an exploit). I understand they get paid based on the ammount of users they infect. Here's the part I don't understand... Why download 50, 60 or 100's of spyware programs that slow the computer so much the user then gets his computer "fixed" ? Why not just leave 2 or 3 spyware programs, get money for them and don't add more? That makes more sense to me.
serraDec 18, 2006
Nobody is that retarded to buy this... I hope. Oh the humanity!
Closed AccountDec 18, 2006
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
schnupiDec 18, 2006
microsoft is the only one who could be interested in buying this as this exploit could cost them hundreds of thousands in revenue if it is published on the net
astrotrainDec 18, 2006
One of MANY exploits to come from Vista. People are suckers for buying into this.
ocularsinisterDec 19, 2006
@CBTFThat's all very well, but what people over look the performance hit of having a virus scanner running. A year or so back I was given the unpleasant task of fixing an InstallShield script. It would take something of the order of 40 minutes to build the InstallShield package. Every time InstallShield added a file to the CAB, Norton anti-virus would unpack the whole CAB, virus scan it, rebuild the CAB and mark it as clean. When you've got lots of files, this is a serious problem. It wouldn't surprise me if our compilers wouldn't be substantially faster if there was no need for anti-virus tools to be scanning every .obj, .dll and .exe modified.Disabling the anti-virus reduced the InstallShield build time to < 5 minutes.
ungamedplayerOct 9, 2007
Oh, i care for it the same, but its still good to know that these diseases/operating system problems exist.