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19th February, 2004, 05:18 AM
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| win XP 64 - security Just something which came into my thoughts last night. Will this bold new generation of OS be more secure than what we are accustomed to, or will it remain a constant stream of security updates?
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19th February, 2004, 07:34 AM
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| Nope, it won't be any more secure, as it's the same codebase as Windows XP. Hence, it'll suffer the same issues as Windows XP 32bit. It'll just need a 64bit exploit to take advantage of vulnerabilities instead.
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19th February, 2004, 11:10 AM
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| Thanks Áedán. I've just checked the critical update catalogue for this and there are 29 Critical updates and 9 Recommended. (edit: depending on which version of XP64 you happen to have  )
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19th February, 2004, 12:37 PM
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| Well at this point, that may give us, for a lest a while, the same break Linux gets as far as most hackers seemingly wanting to work on the mainstream OS of the day...right? Or is it just to easy for them to port to 64 bit?
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19th February, 2004, 01:44 PM
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19th February, 2004, 03:02 PM
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I'm on dial up so I look at the MS CU catalogue at work and download and copy them there.
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19th February, 2004, 08:57 PM
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| Was afraid that would be the case
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