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Message-ID: <Sea1-F45KFUV6mwNdeK0004ea31@hotmail.com> From: randomisedletters at hotmail.com (Random Letters) Subject: Microsoft Security, baby steps? Copy Win98! Using the built-in firewall stops incoming hacks pretty effectively in my experience. Perhaps Microsoft can win back some friends and good coverage by releaseing XP SP2 as a new integrated product and as an add-on disk the same as they did for Windows '98. >Hey, if I can have an idiot-proof way of installing just the fixes for >the RPC problems on Windows before attaching to the network, I'll be >that much farther ahead. > >I sometimes forget to download the patches from behind the firewall or >to use the install CDs that have the patches added... Then it takes >three times longer to rebuild the machine. And, of course, the only >reason I'm rebuilding it is because the machine was loaded with malware >anyway... > >I've been a lot better about this lately, but I still think it's kind of >absurd that I can't plug a freshly rebuilt Windows XP machine into the >network. You'd think that Microsoft would at least make an official >release of Windows XP.1 or something like that to address this totally >absurd problem with their software. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband connection http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband
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