RE: Items within XP SP2 and Win2003

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To: <kyle@inetconnection.com>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:47:31 -0400

Could you provide some specifics regarding this? I'd be interested to hear
about these exploits and what is wrong with the firewall. I'm also curious
as to why you say that SP2 wasn't finished; were you a beta tester?

Thanks,

Laura

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kyle [mailto:kyle@inetconnection.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:53 PM
> To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: Items within XP SP2 and Win2003
>
> Well, on the grand scheme of things, XP SP2 is far from
> secure. I know of a good many arbitrary code exploits that
> are easily utilized by a common webmaster. And the "firewall"
> is like a chain link fence for a privacy fence.
> IMO you were better off not "upgrading" to SP2 and sticking
> with SP1 until
> SP2 was fixed (released, but far from done, and def. not an
> upgrade) I'm sure M$ was better with 2003 considering it was
> supposed to be a SERVER edition, but then again you never
> know with M$.
>
> On Sunday 19 September 2004 09:11 pm, James Bowman wrote:
> > Is their a set of hotfixes needed for 2003 that make it
> comprable in
> > features / overall security posture to XP SP2?
> >
> > Although there's probably a bevy of XP SP2 items embedded
> in 2003, I
> > would imagine there's a bunch that's not...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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