[access-uk] Re: SP2 and some incorrect information
- From: "Colin @ New Vision" <cph.newvision@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:38:20 +0100
Hi Andrew
I guess ZoneAlarm are concerned about SP2 and what it will do to their own
business, but it is them who are reporting that SP2 does not protect against
outbound threats of keystroke-logging Trojans. So they must have their
reasons for making this statement.
Regards
Colin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 6:16 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: SP2 and should you install it
> Hi,
>
> Some incorrect information in this message.
> F
> Irstly, the MS firewall does protect against outbound applications
> connecting to the Internet. This is why, when I started with SP2, I got
> a heap of warnings asking whether I wanted to permit applications to
> connect to the network. What actually happened was that when the system
> did eventually connect to my domain controler, I set a policy on there
> to disable the firewall, as I have better protection from a hardware
> firewall, and don't need application protection on this machine.
>
> The issue is that most companies currently don't want the security
> centre or firewalls on their systems, mainly because they have better
> programs to do this all for them. True, the updates are useful,
> especially the stability/driver/security updates, but I would argue the
> usefulness of the security centre for companies. =20
>
> Some of the issues that a company may have to considder when upgrading
> to SP2 is:
>
> 1. Will prompts that pop up cause users confusion.
> 2. Will the security centre take up extra memory, or just be another
> application to be compromised later on?
> 3. Will some of IE's new features, specificly pop-up blocker, interfeer
> with our web based applications or our intranet?
> 4. If we need to go back to SP1 for any reason, what issues will this
> cause?
> 5. How easy will it be to install updates to other applications to work
> correctly with SP2? How much could this cost us?
> 6. How will our own applications work with SP2, how much will it cost
> to change their behaviour?
>
> These are just some of the issues I could think of from the top of my
> head, there could be many more.
>
> Andrew.
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