XP SP2; Here we go again!

Major Bug

[henry0]

From "the inquirer.net"

Major Windows XP SP2 bug reveals documents worldwide

Circumvents Microsoft firewall, magazine claims

By INQUIRER staff: Friday 17 September 2004, 11:51

PC WELT in Germany said it has discovered a major bug in Windows XP Service Pack 2 which will crack open your PC like a song thrush breaks a snail shell.

[encyclo]

Got to put a link if you want us to read the article, henry ;)

Here's the link to the original article referenced by the Inquirer:

[pcwelt.de...]

(It's in English even if the rest of the site is in German)

The bug seems to be a regression from SP1, and it affects dialup and ISDN users only.

[Leosghost]

surprised anyone?

these were the issues mentioned in the link posted by isitreal a while back ....most people dismissed them as the author carping ...which obviously he was not ...

99 percent of users of xp will not understand how to switch these to "safe" ..even when explained to them clearly ...much more work for small security businesses ..
as usual very bizare choice of "defaults" by redmond ..

( scuse "no caps etc" ...broke lefthand and wrist yesterday ...trying to avoid "keyshift" ..ow! )

[henry0]

Sorry about the missing link :)

Remember how may times did I state
"Wait and see"! When dealing with MS packs
regards
Henry

PS) Leosghost; time to check speech recog prg...

[Leosghost]

henryo ...love to ..can't buy english version here ..french version thinks my accent is "rigolo"...
do they do one that builds houses and makes sculpture ( i've got huge amount of work on ..and we all know how weird my typing is anyway :)

[henry0]

Leosgohst,
Funny you say that
here the US version thinks my accent is funny :)
Henry

[isitreal]

It's funny when people dismiss things without knowing very much about what the report was actually saying, the register report, here [theregister.co.uk] was not a hit piece, it was a study of the security holes left open after a sp2 install.

And, if you missed it, there was also a new active x critical patch, this week, what's that you say, but that was patched in sp2, and various other patches before that. Obviously there's too much internal linking to ever really get patched.

I remember when I had those kinds of IE issues, that was a few years ago, when I used IE, except for Outlook express being permanently tied in to IE 5x I never see IE at all anymore except for checking my sites for IE bugs.

I'm now checking out a similar solution, using it now, firefox, ah the beauty of linux screensavers, Yoper Linux, unstable but very very fast, as fast or faster as windows I'd say. KDE is looking good, new software installs are still problematic, glitchy but works.

hope your wrist gets well soon, remember, when it feels like it's better for the first time you've still got a few weeks of healing left from my experience, get better leosghost.

[Kirby]

>Obviously there's too much internal linking to ever really get patched

Spot on! Why is this so difficult for people to understand or accept?