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posted by [personal profile] purplerabbits at 10:51am on 25/08/2004 under ,
Is there a consensus yet on whether XP users should download Service Pack 2? And has anyone tried it yet? I am running Zone Alarm, AVG and AdAware and I don't use Internet Explorer...
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posted by [identity profile] wechsler.livejournal.com at 03:08am on 25/08/2004
I gave up and installed it on the basis that I don't use the apps known to have issues, and that I'd never be able to download another security patch again if I didn't.
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posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 03:26am on 25/08/2004
Do you know which apps have issues?
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posted by [identity profile] wechsler.livejournal.com at 03:40am on 25/08/2004
MS admits to: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130
See also: http://isc.sans.org/xpsp2.php?startmsg=1231
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posted by [identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com at 03:27am on 25/08/2004
I decided "Oh, what the hell" the other night (for similar reasons to [livejournal.com profile] wechsler) but then remembered it was 75Mb+ and I only have dialup at home atm. It can wait until I've moved and got broadband.
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posted by [personal profile] barakta at 04:20am on 25/08/2004
A good friend has just reinstalled WindowsXP from scratch to avoid SP2 because it broke so much of his stuff, mainly firewall/network and game tho.

Natalya
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posted by [identity profile] thekumquat.livejournal.com at 05:12am on 25/08/2004
I think I'll wait until we've finished playing Broken Sword III, and then install it. Our server should protect me in the meantime.

Meanwhile at work I'm getting emails from people I've never emailed saying that I've emailed them a virus. [shrug]
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posted by [identity profile] wechsler.livejournal.com at 05:40am on 25/08/2004
Plenty of email viruses forge the "from" address. You'd think people would realise this by now.
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posted by [identity profile] thekumquat.livejournal.com at 09:39am on 25/08/2004
Equally, I could have scads of viruses. We're talking about a machine running Windows + IE, on a tied line, with IT bods all being contracted out, some of whom don't know the difference between a file and a program, and others who don't know enough English to understand sentences like "I need the software installed for my special mouse".

To be fair, some of them are very good. I hope they're the ones hiding in Guildford building firewalls.
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posted by [identity profile] biog.livejournal.com at 01:16pm on 26/08/2004
Downloaded & installed service pack 2 last night. I think most of the updates are security 'under the bonnet' things, but I'd leave yourself a full morning/afternoon/evening for it as it takes a while to install even once you've waited patiently to download it, then allowed time for the download itself to take place (on broadband by the way).
There's a new 'security centre' thingy on the control panel part which seems fine & a tighter XP firewall.
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posted by [identity profile] neferet.livejournal.com at 01:52pm on 26/08/2004
Well, I for one am gonna avoid using it. It won't support semagic, it looks like it won't support my diary system, or AVG, or my file-sharing programmes.
Call me paranoid/skeptical, but I am wondering if Microsoft wrote the service pack 2 this way on purpose....
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