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From: R.Ferris at napier.ac.uk (Ferris, Robin)
Subject: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things

I havent heard about about this being a problem but will be testing this
in the next few months, so thnxs for the heads up. M$ have said that SP2
must be quote "tested, tested, tested and tested in your environment to
see what it breaks" prior to installing it. Looks like some of Gregory
customer got ahead of themselves! It is fairly easy to open up the
windows firewall unlike the old ICF. So hopefully they will get it
sorted soon.

Just my 2 bobs worth

RF 

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Will Image
Sent: 11 August 2004 01:49
To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things

the only problem i've encountered so far is that my printer , a canon
multipass f20 .. which has a flash card reader freezes when trying to
view drives when i click on the 'my computer' icon ... also it freezes
when i try to open a file from within a program using file/open.. when
trying to get list of drives... im not sure if this is a driver problem
with xp seeing the flash card as a drive... has anyone with usb/flash
drives experienced this problem?

--- "Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss@...publishing.com>
wrote:

> All,
> 
> Just FYI, my company is experiencing a high volume of calls from 
> customers claiming that they have installed Windows SP2.
> Customers claim that SP2 is
> "breaking" previously working network behavior.
> Initial testing indicates
> that the cause is the "Internet Firewall" settings on SP2 which have 
> been set to default closed! SO by FINALLY doing what ought to have 
> been done ages ago (as often argued in posts to this and other lists),

> Microsoft has inadvertently "broken" several customer network 
> installations that got used to having transparency to network 
> protocols that, after the installation of SP2, are no longer 
> permitted.
> 
> Yay Microsoft, you finally got it right (sort of).
> 
> G
> 
> 
> -- 
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