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| Thread ID: 52837 | 2004-12-31 08:51:00 | Symantec warns SP2 not safe | drb1 (4492) | Press F1 |
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| 309281 | 2005-01-03 20:08:00 | Yes - my point not very well made was that if you keep your system patched and the firewall on you already have a pretty good protection from hackers (providing you know enough not to do silly things that is). I've found the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser pretty handy to ensure you are fully patched, because Update doesn't always pick all updates up (strangely enough). Very good idea to have a XP slipstreamed disk (incorporate the SP2 into the XP disk) and have all the patches avialable on a CD, so that when you reinstall you have everything available without any downloading required. |
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| 309282 | 2005-01-04 10:59:00 | Yes - my point not very well made was that if you keep your system patched and the firewall on you already have a pretty good protection from hackers (providing you know enough not to do silly things that is) . == D . Like even putting a toe near the WAREZ or PORN zone's ===== I've found the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser pretty handy to ensure you are fully patched, because Update doesn't always pick all updates up (strangely enough) . Very good idea to have a XP slipstreamed disk (incorporate the SP2 into the XP disk) and have all the patches avialable on a CD, so that when you reinstall you have everything available without any downloading required . And have either a fully updated antivirus copy and firewall copy or a copy of all of the updates for said . So they can be installed BEFORE the machine is introduced to the internett for the first time . It has been shown (and people have come here for assistance after installing xp and sp2 and attempting to update anti virus and fire walls) that a machine with sp2 as a fresh install is still VERY vunerable whilst attempting to obtain download updates for its anti virus or downloading updates for its non M/S fire wall . Exploitable vunrabilities in SP2 that M/S HAS know about since October have still not been patched . Considering how many Billions M/SCAm makes every year, that is abusolutely discusting customer service . This leaves me to reiterate the Question passed buy a promminent IT Juronalist, Are Microsoft actually in league with: Phishers, Spammers, And Malware Writers? Their constant failures in security, fairly beg's the question . D . |
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