News: Major vulnerability in Windows?

Claims made of a major vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system have been refuted.

Jan Fry, head of PCI at ProCheckUp Labs, claimed that the findings by 2X Software, revealed exclusively by SC Magazine yesterday, were a 'little sensationalist'. Yesterday, 2X Software said that with a simple piece of code, an operating system from Windows 7/Server 2008 versions to Windows 2000/Server 2003 could be crashed with malicious applications installed.

However Fry refuted this, saying that the claims indicate that code needs to be run for the vulnerability to be exploited, so an attacker cannot just send some malicious traffic to a Microsoft server and crash it. Fry said: "First scenario, someone is emailed a malicious application. They run it once and their machine crashes. This person is particularly stupid, so after rebooting, they run the executable again and once again the machine crashes. By now, even a potato would see the correlation and would stop running the executable.

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