[THIN] Re: XP SP2 Alert

  • From: "Nick Smith" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:15:22 +0100

Good to know Redmond have got it together: they have now delayed the
auto-deployment for <drumroll> 9 days!
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1636448,00.asp
But you can stop it happening:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2aumng.
mspx 

Good planning...wait till all the techies go on holiday, then wreck the
network!

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Rogers [mailto:Andrew.Rogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 17 August 2004 08:46
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: XP SP2 Alert

i thought nmap was supposed to use the winpcap library which gives you
raw sockets?

Andrew
--o--

>>> george2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 16/08/04 18:57:12 >>>

And some programs like nMap don't work because MS turned off the ability
to use raw sockets.  -George

Andrew Rogers wrote:
> Let the IT games begin! :)
> 
> Heres MS's list of doom for SP2 (aka, stuff gone broke!)
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242
> 
> Andrew
> --o--
> 
> 
>>>>nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 16/08/04 13:53:52 >>>
> 
> For those of you who may have some client PCs auto-downloading MS 
> patches, apparently they will be staring to download - and eventually 
> install - SP2 from today.
> 
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