Microsoft Patches the "Crazy Bad" Windows Vulnerability

Published 2017-05-09 16:10 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

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#5429806

ScreamerRSA

2017-05-09 16:19

Good thing then that I disable Windows Defender. :banana:

#5429826

waltc3

2017-05-09 16:43

Good thing then that I disable Windows Defender. :banana:

If Google bothered to test Norton's or McAfee's or the others like they test Windows Defender, Lord only knows what they'd find, imo...;) It also occurred to me that since they say it dates back to Defender in Windows 7 that it seems to have possibly taken Google years to find this thing...Interesting.

#5429843

RealNC

2017-05-09 17:30

The flaw is inside Windows Defender.

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#5429844

TheDeeGee

2017-05-09 17:32

Defender is disabled by default here cuz i run NOD32.

#5429849

schmidtbag

2017-05-09 17:57

If Google bothered to test Norton's or McAfee's or the others like they test Windows Defender, Lord only knows what they'd find, imo...;) It also occurred to me that since they say it dates back to Defender in Windows 7 that it seems to have possibly taken Google years to find this thing...Interesting.

If Google bothered to test Norton or McAfee, they'd likely get shut down. I would rather my computer be infected than use those.

#5429869

PrMinisterGR

2017-05-09 19:00

Good thing then that I disable Windows Defender. :banana:

Such a good idea. At least all the rest of the non-exploitable software you have can now run free :infinity: By the way this is a code execution while scanning flaw, that probably exists for a ton of other, worse made, AV.

#5429897

RealNC

2017-05-09 20:33

Such a good idea. At least all the rest of the non-exploitable software you have can now run free :infinity:

Anyone remember the bitcoin miner in the ESEA client? :banana:

#5429908

intellimoo

2017-05-09 20:58

"Microsoft's speed in issuing an automatic patch is impressive for a change." Guess they didn't want to get scroogled again when the findings would be released by google to hurt --err, inform everybody.

#5429929

nevcairiel

2017-05-09 22:08

It also occurred to me that since they say it dates back to Defender in Windows 7 that it seems to have possibly taken Google years to find this thing...Interesting.

Thats not entirely clear. Windows Defender in Windows 7 still gets updated, so it may have been caused by a change somewhere down the line, and not been present from day 1. Without testing a large variety of versions, its impossible to know - but also not all that interesting to spend much time on to find out.

#5429971

David Lake

2017-05-10 00:19

I remove the service and permanently delete the program files for Windows Offender.

#5429976

Redemption80

2017-05-10 00:30

Good stuff, encouraging to see it was patched so quickly.

#5429986

PrMinisterGR

2017-05-10 01:08

I remove the service and permanently delete the program files for Windows Offender.

"There is no problem with my locks since the day I removed them". :infinity:

#5430051

Dch48

2017-05-10 06:23

Is this included in the regular batch of 2nd Tuesday updates? I did those as soon as they became available and I just checked and nothing else is available. Defender is disabled by my AV but not deleted or removed. Doing that is really stupid in my opinion. Even when it is disabled you still have the ability to use it as a manual backup and that's a good thing.

#5430242

tsunami231

2017-05-10 18:57

Is this included in the regular batch of 2nd Tuesday updates? I did those as soon as they became available and I just checked and nothing else is available. Defender is disabled by my AV but not deleted or removed. Doing that is really stupid in my opinion. Even when it is disabled you still have the ability to use it as a manual backup and that's a good thing.

I got the todays updates too, but Defender is disable too by avast, so i not sure either