Re: How to download service packs for future installation?
- From: "Bubba" <respondtogroup@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:45:33 -0700
> >>It seems a little stupid to use the most insecure browser to download
the
> >>Microsoft service packs with a vulmerable computer. How can one
download
> >>the service packs so they can be installed before one goes online?
> >>
> >Then when one installs updated antivirus/spyware/adware utilities one is
> >truly protected BEFORE the first step into that dangerous online world.
> >Why wouldn't Microsoft stress the importance of this?
>
> Because of the recurring vulnerabilities of all later systems, I stayed
> with win98se for years, finally installing win2000 just last month as a
> dual boot. I first DL'd all the relevant stuff, sp4, and a couple more
> recent small patches, in file form,
My question was - where did you get it on the MS website? I couldn't find
anything relevant. (Its a big website!)
> as well as the latest AVAST!,
> SpybotSD, and AdAware, latest netscrape, proxomitron (browser proxy,
> stops JS and other invasive crap). I litterally pulled the internet
> plug, installed win2000, patched, got the protections in place, rebooted
> again, and only then did I allow the thing to connect to the net. Never
> a problem, if you can call all this extra work, worry, and years of
> depriving myselfof later OS like this because of vulnerabilities that
> have been virtually unknown to linux for decades "no problem."
>
> The safe way to set up any ms OS later than win98se is to have a win98se
> system to pre-DL the patches, pull the internet plug, and then act as if
> the rest of the world truly IS out to get you (because many millions of
> zombied machines ARE).
>
> microsopht sees plenty, they just continue to act as if the world is
> billgates oyster, that no one is going to do anything except what he
> expects/wants, that we all want our computers to rat on us to him all
> the time, that we want him to take over our machines, our lives, and own
> everything. He has singularly accomplished one thing that the
> communists never could: made Marx seem pretty reasonable. If it weren't
> for the fact that he has the game developers wrapped around his ...
> finger, so they don't release new games for linux, I would have tossed
> everything to do with ms in the toilet years ago.
>
> *wipes the spit off the lip and goes for a cold drink to cool off after
> singeing beard with flaming breath*
>
> --
> A sufficiently advanced computer network protective attitude is
indistinguishable from paranoia.
.
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