First of all, sorry it's not exactly realated to music discussion and if you already read about it today.

There's a serious hole that was discovered in WinXP and Winamp. This would allow a complete control of the system without even executing a file! The issue is discussed on wired.com:

http://www.wired.com/news/infostruc...7,56924,00.html

It contains links to winamp and ms fixes.

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Thanks for the info. Yet another friggin security patch I have to download.

So, is the Winamp 2.81 released on 8.23.2002 the fixed version?

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yep

yet another security issue in windows xp, and its been around for ages, when are microsoft going to actually produce a DECENT operating system?

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how do we know if we have 32 bit /64 bit XP?

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thx for the info dude - much appreciated!

If this bug was just discovered and patched by Nullsoft how come the latest version of WinAmp 2.81 was released in August?

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Originally posted by jonsimmonds yet another security issue in windows xp, and its been around for ages, when are microsoft going to actually produce a DECENT operating system?

Which ppl will aruge, why pay for something that doesn't work properly

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Originally posted by djSlain how do we know if we have 32 bit /64 bit XP?

we all got the 32-bit version i think?
thought the 64-bit was for 64-bit processors

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Originally posted by jonsimmonds yet another security issue in windows xp, and its been around for ages, when are microsoft going to actually produce a DECENT operating system?

Can you tell me any OS that doesn't have security issues?

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Can you tell me any OS that doesn't have security issues?

linux?

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Originally posted by Philby linux?

Doubt it.

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