Windows XP SP3 Causing Router Crashes

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 7, 2008 @06:14AM 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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Re:Blaming the wrong programmers by thermian · 2008-06-07 06:45 · 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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