full-disclosure - WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things

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From: xillwillx at yahoo.com (Will Image)
Subject: 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
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gregory A. Gilliss, CISSP                           
>   E-mail: greg@...liss.com
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