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RE: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox
From: "Randal, Phil" <prandal () herefordshire gov uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:09:17 -0000
I presume he's talking about this one: "Programs that connect to IP addresses that are in the loopback address range may not work as you expect in Windows XP Service Pack 2" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=884020 Cheers, Phil ---- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK
-----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Ron DuFresne Sent: 15 November 2004 20:02 To: Gregory Gilliss Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Gregory Gilliss wrote:One comment about XP2 - the company where I work (which produces security networking appliances) has a corporate policy - we do not support XP2. Sales hates this (because all the numbnuts outthere arepulling SP2 down with autoupdate and they have no clue whatthey havebrought upon themselves) but since M$ was so idiotic as todisable thenetwork functionality that allows reverse proxies tofunction properly(and I'm not talking about Juniper's back door where theypipe thingsstraight through) it basically makes my company's (and every other company's) product break. The really dumb part is that M$ has a patch for theirmisdeeds and aknowledge base article and everything - but it's not incoroporated into autoupdate. Wonder why they would not include that fixfor SP2 inautoupdate? Maybe they *want* to break other company's products? Nah ... <G>I'm sure many would have liked to the the direct link to the sp2 fix. Thanks, Ron DuFresne -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!*** OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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