Win 2K once 63.000 bugs worth $ 500?

[polonus]

Hi malware fighters,

Would you have bought software with 63.000 bugs for $ 500 back in the year 2000?. Read here how this news was presented: http://www.oops-web.com/FoleyOn2000.html
 and the reaction to it here: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pi/xml/00/02/16/000216pimanybugs.html
This is old news, but we never heard how many bugs actually were there. We are 7 years later. Anyone to know what is the situation now? Wonder what the actual situation is?
It is windows 2K, if only a quarter of it is true? How many bugs can you code for, or with how many did you start out, and what did the 75.000 beta testers do, and what is the number now?
If I had a submarine, and ask the youngest mate why the boat has many tiny leaks, he would probably say that it was a floating sieve by design, and that this was to be expected. Then if you paid attention you saw people drilling extra holes in it as well.

polonus

[bob3160]

I just upgraded to Vista and I'm already finding old holes and problems.

Explorer keeps bombing out and needs to restart   which looses items
in the system tray.....    Feels like the old days of Windows ME    ouch......

[sucer]

I have had kernal32.dll, winsock.dll and wsock32.dll in my System files in the virus chest. Should I delete these? I have deleted 2 from Googles picture software, picasa this morning, from the virus chest.

I would have posted this as a new topic but I don't see where or how to do that!!

[FreewheelinFrank]

The system files are backup files- not infected files- so don't delete them.

The Picasa files may have been a false positive. You may need to reinstall the software if you've deleted them from the chest- you should always leave files in the chest just in case they have been wrongly identified as malware- real malware is inactive in the chest so there's no hurry to delete it.

[oldman]

I would have posted this as a new topic but I don't see where or how to do that!!

At the top right hand side of the page with the list of posts.  See image.

[Marc57]

I just upgraded to Vista and I'm already finding old holes and problems.

Explorer keeps bombing out and needs to restart   which looses items
in the system tray.....    Feels like the old days of Windows ME    ouch......

I remember ME well, You were lucky if you could go a month with out doing a format and re-install.