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Windows XP SP3 Causing Router Crashes

Posted by timothy on from the insecurity-through-non-obscurity dept.

KrispyBytes writes "Windows XP SP3 has been named as the culprit causing home routers to go into a crash and reboot cycle. One router maker has released firmware updates to fix the problem, but has not yet revealed what is actually different about XP SP3's networking stack or UPnP behaviour that causes the problem. Router maker Billion Managing Director Raaj Menon said "as Microsoft plans to make Windows XP SP3 an automatic upgrade this month, the number of affected routers may increase significantly.""

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  1. Other Glitches? by Illbay · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This seems like a good place to mention this.

    I have had some screwed-up problems since installing SP3 myself, not related to this "Router" issue.

    First, Firefox no longer functions correctly. Specifically, field data that is retained (you can see it right there already filled-in), does not register. For instance, if I have a user id and password already entered and saved from a previous session, even though it shows up in the field, the server system doesn't "see" it.

    Second, the USB ports on my HP Port Replicator xb2000 (I believe) no longer function.

    I don't believe this is coincidence, but is directly attributable to SP3.

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  2. Re:Blaming the wrong programmers by thermian · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Maybe, SP3 appears to have been responsible for screwing up my machine, causing it to crash constantly within a day of being installed.
    I re-installed and just got the updates singly from windows update. It might just be that my machine is four years old however, I'm not definitely sure it was SP3, it was just the timing that makes it seem that way.

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  3. Re:Glad I disabled auto-updates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I always like to check what is foisted on my machine. It's been trying for weeks to get me to install WGA before I'm allowed near Office upgrades so I eventually gave up on that box and switched to OOo.

    Except for label printing. What labels doesn't OpenOffice print?
  4. Sequential ones by cheros · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I have a source, say a spreadsheet, with a column with bunch of numbers in, there is no easy way to quickly do a run of labels with one column entry per label, and that's not just because you have to "register a datasource" before you can even use field references.

    Letters for a mail merge, yeah, no problem. A sheet of labels (all different)? Nope.

    Just try it, you'll see what I mean.

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