full-disclosure - [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox

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From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne)
Subject: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Gregory Gilliss wrote:

> One comment about XP2 - the company where I work (which produces
> security networking appliances) has a corporate policy - we do not
> support XP2. Sales hates this (because all the numbnuts out there
> are pulling SP2 down with autoupdate and they have no clue what
> they have brought upon themselves) but since M$ was so idiotic as
> to disable the network functionality that allows reverse proxies
> to function properly (and I'm not talking about Juniper's back
> door where they pipe things straight through) it basically makes
> my company's (and every other company's) product break.
>
> The really dumb part is that M$ has a patch for their misdeeds and
> a knowledge base article and everything - but it's not incoroporated
> into autoupdate. Wonder why they would not include that fix for SP2
> in autoupdate? Maybe they *want* to break other company's products?
> Nah ... <G>
>

I'm sure many would have liked to the the direct link to the sp2 fix.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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