Really nasty VisualStudio2008 RTM bug

From kb945425

Lines of code may be missing if you compile a solution that has a complex project structure in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The solution may incorrectly compile to Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) code that omits certain method calls in the compiled .dll. This problem occurs when there are method calls to classes that participate in an inheritance hierarchy that uses generic constraints.

This is really scary. You don't event notice that your application does not do everything it is supposed to.

Kathleen Dollard found this bug.

 

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2007 data security summary

At the end of year 2006 F-Secure had 250 thousand malware detections. 2007 they added same amount of detections. If this trend continues, we'll be in big trouble.

 

 

How long  F-Secure, McAfee, Kaspersky and others can secure our computers? Sooner or later we need a different approach.  It's not acceptable that virus scanners slow down our computers too much. The security should by transparent. We shouldn't notice it at all. The network infrastructure should protect us. When do we see that?