Re: You might want to consider this before making the plunge to SP2

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From: V Green (vanceg_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:53:11 -0700

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:117d01c4ba3f$968103c0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> ahhhh use firefox from mozilla.org .
>

But will that really help?

The vulnerabilities that IE exposes are in your OS
whether you use IE or not as your browser, at least
as far as my limited understanding goes.

It's true that you should be protected from things
that are known problems with IE if you use
an alternative browser while online,
but most viruses are past that now, attacking the vulnerabilities
directly even if you're not actively using IE.

>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >http://www.phdcc.com/xpsp2.htm
> >
> >Now I am not saying don't apply SP2 All I am saying is
> that before you do make sure you know what to expect. It
> may not be a pretty picture. Depending on how you use your
> system.
> >
> >If Microsoft gave an option when installing SP2 like, "Do
> you want to button down IE from known attack vectors" then
> you probably can figure out why it is not done. Most
> people don't want to button down nothing. They just want
> their system to work. And so it goes.
> >
> >--
> >George Hester
> >__________________________________
> >.
> >

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