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Posted by michael on Tuesday August 17, 2004 @07:54PM from the millions-of-man-hours-spent-working-around-new-bugs dept.

Xformer writes "It seems that SP2 for Windows XP isn't as secure as Microsoft touts it to be. Heise Security has uncovered two flaws in SP2's bolstered security measures, both of which may be used to get around the new trusted/untrusted executable origin checks. Of course, who would be surprised by this?" Reader EtherNetFreak writes "Well it appears that at least one hotfix is already available to fix yet another bug in Windows XP, post SP2 application." Reader Finalnight writes "'Microsoft Corp. yesterday delayed yet again its oft-delayed Windows XP Service Pack 2, this time postponing the patch's distribution through the company's Automatic Update service.'"

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Re:'Flaws' Not that big of a deal by MonTemplar · 2004-08-17 20:04 · Score: 0, Redundant

They're working on a fix for this - Microsoft Clue for Users* :)

-MT.

* Pronounced with a silent L.

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New Poll by cesman · 2004-08-17 20:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

Perhaps a new poll is in order.
Which will get released first?
XP SP2
Longhorn

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Vapourware? by Fuzzums · 2004-08-17 20:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

I would like to suggest XP-SP2 as the no.1 vapourware project for 2004 ;)

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