[LINK] MS fix is open to RCE

[Malcolm Miles]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:54:55 +1100, you wrote:

>One of my former cow-orkers at the local council, who is well aware of 
>my "liking" for M$, purposely rang me yesterday to relate a story about 
>one of his cow-orkers with a BIG box (Dual Core & 4Gb) who installed 
>Vista.  He then went to burn a CD or DVD and the beast consumed 100% of 
>the system resources and wouldn't let his regain control.  I think he 
>hit the kill switch and has since back-graded.

I just happened to be burning a DVD with Vista as I read this message.
CPU utilisation is around 10-15% and no loss of control. My box is an
oldish Athlon 64 3200+ (2GHz) with 1Gb RAM.

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Best wishes,
Malcolm