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March 25, 2005, 4:00pm
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.Or if you chose not to install XP SP2, MS have now decided to force users to update after April 12th, the changes in SP2 are generally to increase protection, the same is true of the 4.6.623 version of avast.
Interesting, hadn’t been aware of that. I have many friends who haven’t updated to SP2, think a couple haven’t even bothered with SP1.
Have you a link where I can read up and perhaps even point them to?
Thanks
There have been a number of articles in the on-line media, I don’t have a direct reference although some of the e-newsletters I get have covered it. A google search for say Windows XP SP2 April 12 update may return some info.
If you switch of the auto update function (which these people who don’t even have SP1 won’t know of) and only do manual update, it will be possible to get round this. But as time goes on the only updates will be related to those using SP2, so your/their system is going to get more and more out of date and vulnerable. The main reason for this vulnerability is as MS announces a patch, it seems to wake up the script kiddies to try and exploit the vulnerability before people update.
Thanks
Found a link and have read through. I can see that some people won’t be too happy with an automatic inclusion of SP2 especially if they are only on dial up, as some of my family are. Also, although SP2 has been fairly successful there have been times when the upgrade has caused problem, I had some experience of this the first time I tried but fortunately I had an image file to revert back to.
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March 25, 2005, 4:02pm
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Technical & jarmo
Shan’t make any more replies as the points I wanted to raise have been answered.
Thanks to everyone for their contribution.