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Microsoft Lists SP2 Incompatibilities
thejuggler writes "ZDNET has a story about how the new XP SP2 causes conflicts with over 50 applications and causes problems with others including some of Microsoft's own products. The 'glitch' as they are calling it seems to be that the Windows firewall system is turned on by default and blocks unsolicited connections to your computer. You have to unblock certain ports as your applications require to make the apps work again. They are calling this a glitch, but I thought we wanted everything blocked by default so we would have to choose what was unblocked?" The BBC has a story as well.
Look at the list, notice all those MICROSOFT products on it? Good, now shut up and go back to your hole.
If computer users can't manage to get their heads around simple dialogs (which SP2 questions pretty much are), they deserve the trouble they get... perhaps them being offline would reduce the spam & DDoS zombies.
Perhaps if the Linux community would stop praising virus and trojan writers for playing up the security issues in Windows, it wouldn't be such a popular sport. Perhaps if you uniformly treated them like the criminals they are and demanded punishments to fit the damages, instead of defending them as the Second Coming, it might convince a few of them to stop.
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Actually, I'd have been happier if they just blocked access to the ports that MS left open for ease of use, not all ports. That generally means well known ports under 1024. Ports above, like P2P networks, most games, etc, only run if they're meant to run via an installed application. What exactly was MS trying to accomplish by this?
Are the next round of games going to include code to turn off their required ports? If so, that pretty much kills any usefulness of a "firewall".
This is more like ripping off the nose to spite the face than anything truly insightful or helpful on MS's part. Again, they took the easy way out. Rather than fix their software, they applied yet another bandaid. At some point, the number of bandaids will be thick enough to stop a bullet, but the bandaids themselves have this terrible habit of falling off at just the wrong time.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
I'd love to hear you explain how a system restore would somehow prove that SP2 was the culprit whereas an uninstall of SP2 would not. They would have the same net effect. Are you an MS shill or something?
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