full-disclosure - WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things

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Message-ID: <20040811225827.67951.qmail@web52608.mail.yahoo.com>
From: xillwillx at yahoo.com (Will Image)
Subject: WIndows XP SP2 "breaks" things

Well fiddling around with it . i found that i could
get the card reader working.. so now im guessing i
have to ait forcanon to get off their ass and make
some updated printer drivers for sp2



--- "Myers, Marvin" <MRMyers@...eon.com> wrote:

> I have USB drives on two separate computers, both
> USB hard drives and
> USB card readers an they are working fine after
> installing SP2. May just
> bet the printer drivers that need updating.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Image [mailto:xillwillx@...oo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:49 PM
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Gregory A. Gilliss, CISSP                         
>  
> >   E-mail: greg@...liss.com
> > Computer Security                             WWW:
> > http://www.gilliss.com/greg/
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