Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps? Copy Win98!

["Random Letters" <randomisedletters () hotmail com>]

Using the built-in firewall stops incoming hacks pretty effectively in my 
experience.

Perhaps Microsoft can win back some friends and good coverage by releaseing 
XP SP2 as a new integrated product and as an add-on disk the same as they 
did for Windows '98.

> Hey, if I can have an idiot-proof way of installing just the fixes for
> the RPC problems on Windows before attaching to the network, I'll be
> that much farther ahead.
>
> I sometimes forget to download the patches from behind the firewall or
> to use the install CDs that have the patches added...  Then it takes
> three times longer to rebuild the machine.  And, of course, the only
> reason I'm rebuilding it is because the machine was loaded with malware
> anyway...
>
> I've been a lot better about this lately, but I still think it's kind of
> absurd that I can't plug a freshly rebuilt Windows XP machine into the
> network.  You'd think that Microsoft would at least make an official
> release of Windows XP.1 or something like that to address this totally
> absurd problem with their software.

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