Vista is still BETA Vista Security Discuss Vista is still BETA in the Windows Vista forums; An exploit for the zero-day vulnerability hit the wild last week, more than three months after Microsoft learned of the bug. Microsoft says it took more than three months ...

[Snuffy]

An exploit for the zero-day vulnerability hit the wild last week, more than three months after Microsoft learned of the bug. Microsoft says it took more than three months to craft the patch..

Microsoft was first alerted to the .ANI vulnerability back in December, but a patch for it didn't come before exploits began hitting the wild last week.

Mark Miller, director of the Microsoft Security Response Center, said on Monday that the company needed the three-plus months to work on building and testing a good patch. Since the exploit hit last week, he said slightly less than 100 Microsoft technicians have been working "around the clock" to ready the patch.

Beta takes about that long also, and it works on the pyramid system...

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=49123\n

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HD Audio patch for the Cursor Patch
Yes, a patch for a patch: When you start a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2, the Realtek HD Audio Control Panel may not start. Additionally, you may receive the following error message:

Rthdcpl.exe - Illegal System DLL Relocation

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[Mustangman76]

OMG

u mean to tell me that i bought a beta.. what a rip off..lol

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

Don't understand why its still beta?

[Seansmit17]

Thank you x 200000000

HD Audio patch for the Cursor Patch
Yes, a patch for a patch: When you start a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2, the Realtek HD Audio Control Panel may not start. Additionally, you may receive the following error message:

Rthdcpl.exe - Illegal System DLL Relocation


ive been getting this and hadent a clue why.. thanks suffy

[Snuffy]

Originally Posted by JoshW02@aol.com

Don't understand why its still beta?

Well normally during BETA Test...when a bug is found, then reported, it gets put on a fix list... the more ppl that report it the higher the number it get therefore the higher the number the faster it get a PATCH or FIX.. average time is 4 to 5 months... this last bug was known in Dec 2006. and the patch was not released untill the numbers of "WTF" was very big.

such as the Copy-paste-speed fix... was not released until 3-31-07 here is some info about the release:

Applies to="Windows 6.0"
Build Date="2007/01/24"Company="Microsoft Corporation"
File Version="1"
Installation Type="FULL"
Installer Engine="Component Based Servicing - WUSA.exe"
Installer Version="6.0.0.0"
KB Article Number="931770"
Language="ALL"
Package Type="Hotfix"
Processor Architecture="x86"
Product Name="Windows 6.0"
Support Link="http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=931770"

What it really took that long for the release.. on a NON BETA OS.

PS: I have been Beta testing since Win95..