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Re: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox
From: Gregory Gilliss <ggilliss () netpublishing com>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 09:38:57 -0800
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 out there are pulling SP2 down with autoupdate and they have no clue what they have brought upon themselves) but since M$ was so idiotic as to disable the network functionality that allows reverse proxies to function properly (and I'm not talking about Juniper's back door where they pipe things straight 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 their misdeeds and a knowledge base article and everything - but it's not incoroporated into autoupdate. Wonder why they would not include that fix for SP2 in autoupdate? Maybe they *want* to break other company's products? Nah ... <G> G On or about 2004.11.14 06:59:40 +0000, Curt Purdy (purdy () tecman com) said:
Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:46:51 GMT, Colin.Scott () csplc com said:Oh yeah, I've got 14,000 Windows 2000 machines to update towindows XPSP2, hang on wheres that CD?<snip>What's worse is having to run a university network where you have 30K boxes that you do *not* have the political mandate to upgrade (fortunately, we *can* get away with "Upgrade or you can't use our network to talk to anybody else", because although we don't own the machines, we own the copper. :)Upgrade W2K to XP? I call that a downgrade! I won't allow XP (sp2 or not) on my network. All new boxes must be reformatted and W2K or SuSE Linux or BSD installed (unless of course it is a Mac with OpenBSD kernel that is always welcome). As for a university network, I can only sympathize. I listened to an interview with a U of H admin last week, and thought, if I was a script-kiddie the first thing I would do when I got home was scan their network. Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions ----------------------------- If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- former White House cybersecurity zar Richard Clarke _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox, (continued)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Colin . Scott (Nov 12)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider (Nov 12)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Colin . Scott (Nov 12)
- RE: IE is just as safe as FireFox Michael Evanchik (Nov 12)
- RE: IE is just as safe as FireFox Colin . Scott (Nov 15)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Raoul Nakhmanson-Kulish (Nov 15)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Colin . Scott (Nov 12)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 12)
- RE: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Curt Purdy (Nov 14)
- Re: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Jim Geovedi (Nov 14)
- Re: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox kf_lists (Nov 14)
- Re: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Gregory Gilliss (Nov 14)
- RE: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox joe (Nov 15)
- Re: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Gregh (Nov 15)
- Re: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Ron DuFresne (Nov 15)
- Re: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Gregh (Nov 15)
- Re: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Raoul Nakhmanson-Kulish (Nov 15)
- Re: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox jbernts (Nov 15)
- Re: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Gregh (Nov 15)