Saturday, August 28, 2004
I got round to installing Windoze Service Pack 2 today.Pleasingly, it didn't kill my laptop, but other than that, I can't say it's a big step forward. I guess it'd be good for people who don't know anything about security issues like firewalls, security updates, virus checking, popup blockers etc... as it has all of those built in or integrated in some way or another.
For someone who already has all of those bases covered (like me), unless there are hidden security patches hidden in there (which there probably are) it's not really that impressive. I'd sooner just download the individual patches and not bother with all the bells and whistles that serve no purpose.
On the plus side, it *has* stopped that annoying search bar from appearing on this blog, which google's popup stopper was unable to block, but I *still* have no java.
The Windoze Update site's changed a bit too, and not for the better in my opinion. For it to work at all, I had to allow a load of processes access to the net that I normally block.
I could see that causing nightmares for people who go with the new default setting of the windoze firewall (namely 'on'), coz if it's blocking those ports by default and they dont know how to allow access to those ports, they wont be able to get future updates.
Labels: computers
Steve 2:23 AM [+]
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