Winternals (sysinternals) bought by MS

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Or keeping an expert from pointing out the problems with their
sorely-lacking-in-quality product.
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I pray it's not the latter :-(
....but I remember what happened to PGP when Zimmerman caved in.
 
hummingbird said:
OMG. Quick: grab copies of all the latest free unbloated versions of
sysinternals stuff that still work!
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could be hard
sysinternals website .. mostly webpage timeouts
 
could be hard
sysinternals website .. mostly webpage timeouts
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Yeah I noticed that last night but it did eventually get through.
Large numbers of users doing the same thing and adding comments to the
blog.
 
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:36:52 -0700, John Corliss
Dear God. This totally sucks. I'm going to the Sysinternals site right
now to start downloading everything I can get my hands on.

(Later)

Server overload. Guess I'm not the only one who thought of doing that.
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file is still on a few sites...and I got a copy VERY slowly from

http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessExplorerNt.zip

also...
ftp://ftp.intourist.ru/IVD/ProcessExplorerNt.zip

http://utopia.duth.gr/~om2272/programs/ProcessExplorerNt.zip
 
Thinking about it a little more, it is just possible that some of
Mark's tools and skills will be used to make Windows a better product.
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hmmmmmm (thinking noise) ..... probably not
 
Dear God. This totally sucks. I'm going to the Sysinternals site right
now to start downloading everything I can get my hands on.
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I really rely on sysinternals... procexp is up on every computer I
touch, I'd feel naked without it.. it has spotted more than one
malware

not to mention rootkit revealer
 
Yeah, and just wait until Mark shows them how to *really* build an
undetectable rootkit!
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I've already seen one that's scary enough... they call it "the blue pill".
On 64-bit CPU's it swallows up XP, while it's running, into its own
virtual machine from which it then fully and undetectably controls the OS.

Its developer claims that Windows was just used as a proof-of-concept and
the code can be rewritten do the same to *any* OS.

So far it's confined to the laboratory but it probably won't stay there
now that people know it's possible.
 
arachnid said:
I've already seen one that's scary enough... they call it "the blue pill".
On 64-bit CPU's it swallows up XP, while it's running, into its own
virtual machine from which it then fully and undetectably controls the OS.

Its developer claims that Windows was just used as a proof-of-concept and
the code can be rewritten do the same to *any* OS.

So far it's confined to the laboratory but it probably won't stay there
now that people know it's possible.
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Damn! Now /that's/ scary!

-Craig
 
A much hyped scare or not?
Whatever, somehow I feel that I'm not gonna loose a night's sleep over
that, for a while. :)
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If you think you might loose sleep then you need a tightie-nightie.
May you then sleep tight.

--
Die dulci fruere,
Nicolaas.



.... One often gets much more than one asks for - not all of it necessarily
good.
 
John Corliss said:
Dear God. This totally sucks. I'm going to the Sysinternals site right
now to start downloading everything I can get my hands on.
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They wasted no time. On the website: "Winternals, a Microsoft
subsidiary". Howver, Systernals is "sponsored by Winternals", so it
says on the Systernals website. No mention of being taken over by M$.

News.com:
"Russinovich will be focused on helping Microsoft further develop the
Windows kernel in his role as technical fellow--the top technical
position at Microsoft with less than two dozen people holding such
title. Co-founder Cogswell will become a software architect in the
Windows Component Platform Team."

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ rules! :-(

The best free Win/Systernals utilities?

S.O. Meone
 
S.O. Meone said:
They wasted no time. On the website: "Winternals, a Microsoft
subsidiary". Howver, Systernals is "sponsored by Winternals", so it
says on the Systernals website. No mention of being taken over by M$.

News.com:
"Russinovich will be focused on helping Microsoft further develop the
Windows kernel in his role as technical fellow--the top technical
position at Microsoft with less than two dozen people holding such
title. Co-founder Cogswell will become a software architect in the
Windows Component Platform Team."

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ rules! :-(

The best free Win/Systernals utilities?
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IMO that would be Process Explorer.

On another note, I see that FAT32 for Windows NT 4.0:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Fat32.html

is no longer available. The page is there, the download is 404ed. Don't
know how long this program has been unavailable, but given the way MS
tries to force everybody into using each new version of a file system
they come out with, one could see where they wouldn't like this utility.
 
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