December 2004 - Posts
An excellent article on how Windows XP SP2 was designed and built. A great many of us spent over a year on this puppy! http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_inside.asp
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A reader (hofi) was kind enough to create a shell extension for the DropMyRights tool I wrote about in " Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator ." Download HShellExtPack from http://www.freeweb.hu/hofi/Programming/Vcl/VclComponentsHu.php
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Peter Torr has joined our group, working with development teams to help them through the Security Development Lifecycle and Final Security Review processes. He just posted an interesting comment about downloading and running Firefox. http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2004/12/20/327511.asp
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Just gone live, you should point friends and family to this: http://safety.msn.com/phishing/
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Hot from the newsroom: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/dec04/12-16GIANTPR.asp
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Ok, so I took a little longer than expected to post the answers, but here they are. BTW, many people worked them out :) // Example #1 (code prior to this verifies pszSrc is <= 50 chars) #define MAX (50) char *pszDest = malloc(sizeof(pszSrc)); strncpy(pszDest,pszSrc,MAX);
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In case you hadn't heard, RC1 is avail for download from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default.mspx eWeek has a short write-up about some of the security changes we have made, http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1736680,00.as
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