Windows

My computer is now essentially dead. Luckily I have internet access at work and an hour lunch break :D

It’s been getting increasingly unstable for the past month or so giving me random blue screens of death. Sometimes I get a driver reference that caused the problem (and they are different drivers each time) and sometimes I don’t. Yesterday it managed to crash while trying to display the Windows log-in screen and I was left with just a cursor on black screen.

Since I now have money and it’s old anyway (Athlon 1.2GHz - back when AMD named their processor after their real speed), I’m not so bothered.

Ooooh, I just read on Wikipedia about a vulnerability in how Windows reads WMF files.

The reason why I find this so interesting is because apparently the vulnerability exists versions of Windows all the way back to 3.0! Doesn’t that mean that a serious bug that allows malicious code to be executed has actually existed for 15 years without being exploited? That has to be some sort of record.