Security hole in every 32-bit version of Windows NT since 3.1

Well, I was planning on upgrading to the 64-Bbit version of Windows 7, this weekend. I was/still am holding off for a response to a question I asked on another forum, reguarding SSF (Sat emu). I heard that some games suffer on the 64-Bit OS. Beyond that, I'm all for the move.

 

The only games I have that give me a problem on 64bit 7 are the Worms games, and Sonic Riders. All emulators run fine, except the Dreamcast. None others worked except NullDC, and even that needed tinkering with. Not sure about the Saturn emulation, but just felt like throwing this out there for anyone else intrested in 7.

 

Deal-breaker.

I'm sticking with 32-bit for a while. (Probably helps that I just finished getting my new install of 7 32-bit all set up how I like it, and I think my computer would probably suffer a little due to having only 3 GB of RAM)

On the plus side, from what I've gathered, you need local access before this exploit is useful due to how NTVDM executes code. So in order to exploit this vulnerability remotely, you've first got to use another normal Windows vulnerability to get there and plant the code.

 

I gotta learn how to do this, I wanna rip up on all the computers at school. =P

 

I don't have a problem with Worms Armageddon (provided it's patched and everything).

 

To run the (older) worms games, all you gotta do is kill the explorer.exe task and start the game via the task manager.

Cheers

 

That, or use a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine with host only networking (best VM to use for this would be Sun VirtualBox)

 

Yes. WinXP Mode doesn't work with W:A for some reason.

 

That bug is older than me

good job microsoft

 

On top of that:

Windows 98 is more secure. Hooray!

*runs*

 

What I think is amazing, is how long this bug went unnoticed. Being around for so long, I would have expected there to by a huge amount of exploits in the wild taking advantage of this.

 

Hahahahahaha, oh wow. Microsoft are lazy fucks.

As for the whole 32-bit/64-bit situation, I'm using 32-bit Windows on both computers that I use (my laptop is 64-bit capable though, I'd max my RAM up to 4GB before I do anything). I'm considering building a desktop in the summer and that will probably be 64-bit in order to get with the times. =P

 

Probably a stupid question, but how do you turn off the MSDOS and WOWEXEC subsystems? And what important things need 16-bit to work, anyway?

 

Many of the programs I use.

However, should I disable the NTVDM (or switch to 64-bit), I can just run them in dosbox, so that's not a big problem.

 

Windows 3.x support is so-so in Dosbox....

What you can also do, is get Windows 7 and run your 16-Bit apps in Virtual XP mode