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Story: Rogue code can take down Linux systems

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Rogue click can take down Windows systems!

A security flaw in the windows operating system has been discovered. Windows is a propietary monopoly OS. Proprietary is a business model when a corporation bands together many paid programmers of dubios quality to churn out closed programs that the customers are forced to take as is.

The flaw found by a little old lady can execute at random whenever anything is clicked by a local user.

"Assume your copy of windows is (vulnerable) unless you have good reason to believe it is safe," Steven Balmer said in an advisory.

The proprietary closed-source Windows operating system has fallen prey to its share of flaws and attacks this year. But then again, doesn't it always.

Bill Gates, the Chief Software Architech of the Windows OS, promised a fix within 48 years and said the flaw was not very serious.

"Bugs wherein local users can lock the machine up are not uncommon, and local users have always been able to bring a machine to its knees anyway -- say, by using up all the memory," he said.

Billy G. said the little old lady didn't give the kernel team any notice before calling her grandson about the problem -- a no-no in the proprietary community.

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