[olug] Windows XP SP2

David Loyall david.loyall at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 19:08:29 UTC 2004


Careful.

If your unpatched windows machine becomes part of a DDoS network, it
could be used to attack me, or any one of us.

Firewalls and NAT don't protect against client-side exploits, like
viral code embedded in web pages.

Have a nice day. =)
--David Loyall

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:11:42 -0800 (PST), Sean Edwards
<cybersean3000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> After configuring the "security settings" every which
> way from Sunday, and no success with making the
> computer internet usable, I remove XP SP2.
> 
> Everything works fine now.
>



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