Re: Do I block access from svchost to DHCP?

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 06/14/05 

Date: 14 Jun 2005 20:03:56 GMT

In article <slrndau9hp.60v.BitTwister@wb.home.invalid>,
Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
:On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:32:46 GMT, Mister C wrote:
:> This is my setup:

:> 1. I use WinXP + SP1 at home.

:Hmmm, missing lots of updates there. Poor security practice.

As best I (not a Windows expert!) can tell, Microsoft is making
security patches available for both SP1 and SP2 at present.
Is there a significant security difference between fully-patched SP1
and fully-patched SP2?

I was running SP2 but there was something that wasn't working that
did work under SP1 that I installed on a different partition. If
one cannot effectively run one's system with SP2 but can with SP1,
then is it truly "good security practice" to upgrade to the version
that is functionally unusable under the local circumstances?

If so, then would it not be even better security practice to upgrade
to Windows HP -- a version of Windows that consists of nothing other
than repeated processor HALT instructions, to keep the system from
running anything at all ? 

-- 
   Oh, to be a Blobel!

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