RE: Connecting to NetShare with Vista boxes...problem continues

["Holden Tommy" <Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well...hackers are surely working on Vista hacks (I would be surprised
if none exist already...)  thinking a newer OS is more secure is a bad
security strategy IMO.. 


Thanks,
Tommy Holden


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On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:13 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Connecting to NetShare with Vista boxes...problem continues

On 5/31/07, Fleming, Greg (ED) <GFLEMING@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Funny, when I saw Aaron's post, I did some googling and assumed he was
> referring to the "Vista Tranformation Pack", which promises to give
you
> the look and feel of Vista without actually upgrading.
>
> Available here for free (I haven't tried it myself):
> http://www.windowsxlive.net/?p=361

no way I would trust something like this.  The recent cyber attack on
Latvia by Russian nationalists was accomplished by many ( millions? )
of infected PCs worldwide being activated in a concerted DOS attack.
Presumably the hackers were paid for their services. Add to that the
money to be made intercepting and spoofing banking transactions on
those many infected PCs and you can see why the hackers benefit from
users staying with XP.

not saying of course that this product is hacker code, but I would not
be surprised to learn that hackers feed code and binaries to these
sorts of community efforts.

-Steve