Re: To SP2 or not to SP2?
From: Melvin Klassen (Klassen_at_UVic.CA)
Date: 03/21/05
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:00:14 GMT
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:10:51, rladbury@kittymail.com (Bob Ladbury)
wrote:
> > > - Security Improvements to IE and Outlook Express: I don't use Internet
> > > Explorer and avoid it like the plague. I only use it if a site won't
> > > work with an alternative browser, and even then, I set the security
> > > settings as tight as I can. I also don't use Outlook, or any MS program
> > > if I can avoid it.
> >
> > If you do get a virus/worm/trojan on your computer,
> > it may exploit IE or OE or Outlook, unless you've patched them.
> > Either way, your computer is still infected.
>
>
> How do you figure, when you just quoted me as saying that I don't use
> IE, OE or Outlook?
If you have done the impossible, i.e., completely uninstalled IE and
OE,
then a virus on your computer would not be able to exploit IE and OE.
Since you have them installed, a virus on your computer will be able
to exploit the MAPI interfaces on your computer.
> > Disk-space is cheap!
>
> Not on my hard drive it isn't, thank you very much.
The 1980s are gone -- disk-space no longer costs $100 per gigabyte.
Trim your mullet, and spend less than $100 and get over 100 gigabytes.
Too easy?
> Not to imply that there's anything "simple" about installing this beast...
On the computers I use, it was simple. Just a few clicks.
> Haven't tried it yet, but I read somewhere that SP2 spells the death
> of SP1 updates. Are they the same updates for SP2 as SP1?
Windows Update answers your question.
If you're stuck with XP RTM/Gold or XP/SP1,
any "new" update (since August 2004, when SP2 was released)
has been tagged by Microsoft, to indicate whether the patch
is necessary (for SP1) or unnecessary (proactively fixed in SP2).
> It would also seem that if SP1 updates are still available, they won't be
> for too long, when MS finally manages to finish updating most people's
> machines for SP2.
Define "too long". Microsoft recently announced the end-of-support
for the "gold" version of XP, about 4 years after it became available.
So, SP1 will continue to be supported for a "long" time.
All the released updates for Windows 98 are still available via
Windows Update,
almost seven years later.
The current updates for XP will continue to be available via Windows
Update for a "long" time.
> So you're saying all those "potential exploit" patches and all the
> rest that SP2 does doesn't make you any safer?
I did not say that -- please don't put words into my mouth.
> I guess that means you're advising me not to download it.
Your guess is incorrect.
> So now you're advising me that I should take SP2??
I advise you to switch to Mac OS X, if you really want to be safe,
to end your paranoia about Microsoft operating systems.
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