Hi, my name is Ben and I'm the co-founder and CTO of Mobile Commons in New York City. Two fantastic tidbits from Ars on the recent zero-day Window’s exploit that takes advantage of a flaw in Windows shortcuts.
The best option for mitigating the flaw is to disable Windows’ ability to show shortcuts’ icons. However, this mitigation comes at some cost; it removes all the icons from the Start menu, for example, which is sure to be detrimental to usability.
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Microsoft doesn’t list Windows 2000 or Windows XP Service Pack 2 as vulnerable, but this is because they are no longer supported—they are just as vulnerable as more recent versions, but will not receive a patch.
Sigh.
