full-disclosure - SP2 is killing me. Help?

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From: keydet89 at yahoo.com (Harlan Carvey)
Subject: SP2 is killing me. Help?

Darren,

> Windows XP SP2 has got to be up there with Windows
> NT 4.0 service pack 2
> in terms of crap updates, possibly even worse. 
> Maybe M$ are trying to
> push everyone away from Windows ?

Wow!  MS goes about doing what the security folks have
been harping on for years...providing a modicum of
security in their operating system...and now it's a
"crap update"?  Protection against buffer overflows,
the firewall on by default, etc...what we've been
asking for and harping on...and you come back with
"crap updates"?!?

Someone goes out and blindly installs SP2 on their
system, and has issues...and it's the vendor's fault? 
IBM issued a statement that they didn't want anyone
installing the SP within their org b/c of issues
they'd found during testing.

For home users...if you're running your XP box on the
Internet such that you *must* have SP2 in order to
keep operating, and can't wait for the shake-down
cruise...well, then something's already wrong with
what you're doing.

I guess there's just no pleasing some people.