Vista Voice Exploit Discovered
February 2nd, 2007 by pamela
Poor Microsoft – they announce their eons-in-development new operating system and within days everyone is having a go at them. Yesterday they were forced to admit that the voice recognition features in Vista could potentially be hijacked, making the computer tell itself to delete files.
While Vista is able to respond to voice commands, concerns had been raised about malicious intent being used to exploit users’ PCs. Microsoft did admit that this was a “technically possible” but not to worry. Um…I would have thought that potential new Vista buyers would have wanted a little more reassurance than that.
According to BBC News some Vista users have already tested the theory and were able to delete files and empty the trash can making documents irretrievable.
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