Re: should i install windows xp service pack 2

Today Kerry Brown commented courteously on the subject at
hand

Bruce Chambers wrote:
Kerry Brown wrote:
The firewall broke many corporate networks :-)

True, But not those whose administrators were competent,
did their homework in advance, and then properly planned
the SP2 deployment.

I agree. What I meant by the post was that may have been
the reason the firewall was hidden away before SP2. By the
time SP2 came out Microsoft was desperate to show that they
were trying to secure Windows so saying SP2 included the
firewall was a natural.

Now, this makes sense to me, Kerry. Maybe the firewall was
there in SP1 but I didn't know it. However, to expand a bit,
to the extent that M$ does advertise the extremely improved
security of SP2, why didn't/don't they improve the firewall
and put Zone Alarm the the others out of business?

I do remember that when SP2 was
deployed it did cause a lot of problems in the corporate
network world. A lot of the problems blamed on
incompatibility with legacy apps were in reality firewall
problems. I had to explain this a couple of times to the
phone support for some apps I was dealing with. They didn't
believe me and insisted it was something in SP2. A few
weeks later they sent out an update that was an explanation
of how to open a couple of ports in the Windows firewall or
in another case how to disable the Windows firewall.

--
ATM, aka Jerry

"Whether You Think You CAN Or CAN'T, You're Right." ? Henry
Ford
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