Confirmed: Windows 7 Zero-day Bug

As per the source(www.cio.in), Microsoft has confirmed first bug with Windows 7. A Canadian researcher, Mr. Laurent Gaffie is the first person who reported this bug. As per Gaffie’s blog entry, this bug triggers a infinite loop which can make the windows 7 system unusable. This bug can be triggered via SMB or through IE.

One can read about this bug and the advisory at Gaffie’s Blog

Happy Learning…,

Sitaram Pamarthi

Inside Windows Vista Kernel

While searching for some other stuff, I came across below interesting articles about Internals of Windows Vista Kernel. I felt it will be handy for troubleshooting any OS/Application related issues that you experience in Windows Vista/Windows 7(I am thinking there won’t be much change in Win7).

Inside Windows Vista Part-I

Inside Windows Vista Part-II

Inside Windows Vista Part-III

Happy Learning…,

Sitaram Pamarthi