OT: XP SP2 Security Hole

[Bob Stockler]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:20:27PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
| On Sat, Oct 02 21:33 , Bob Stockler, showing utter disregard for 
| spell-checkers gave us this: 
| 
| > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 08:17:18PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
| > | 
| > | The plus side of XP2 is that it is supposed to be completely
| > | reversible, which are far more than some of the patches that MS
| > | had put out in the past - pariticularly in regard to hard disk
| > | drivers.
| 
| > That's a benefit . . . if it works.
| 
| > I have a Windows Me box that, every now and then M$ tells me needs
| > to be upgraded.
| 
| > Every time I've tried it (3 or 4 times) it gets exactly 70% through
| > the installation of the upgrade, and then hangs - forever.
| 
| I had that too.  I finally reinstalled the OS.  Not a disk wipe,
| but install on top of the operating OS.

It feels good to know I'm not alone, but I don't have the
option you exercised - my Windows Me came OEM installed on
my computer.  All I have is a CD I can use to restore the
system as it was when I bought it, and I don't want to do
that.

Bob

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