Harsh Help

[Guest]

Not to fan the fire here, but for the sake of discussion..

When I buy a new car, the only thing I'm required to know
is how to drive it. For the safe and correct operation of
the engine and all the other essential works I can take it
to an expert. If the maufacturer sells me a lemon theres
a lemon law. If they produce an unsafe or faulty product
they make it right, do a recall or produce a fix for us to
get done (to give us, not that we have to keep going back
for).

I like Microsoft, have a lot of admiration for Bill and
his crew, but how is it any different with this product
than buying a car?

Rookie

-----Original Message-----
The firewall will be enabled by default in SP 2 so a lot of this will
be a non issue.

If the computer is OEM, the manufacturer is really at least partially
to blame since they determine the state of the firewall and often
leave it disabled.

Users need to educate themselves.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


firewall keeps
out will never use
AOL, important

updates.

Critical Updates
as this, and
Microsoft acquire the update
CD MS *is* the
root by

Microsoft.

Well, it was intended to be half parody, half serious. "AOL-style"
refers to their practice of mailing AOL installation

disks to
everyone

on the face of the earth, at least in the US. The

serious part is
that

when setting up a new computer, it is likely that the user will be
connected to their internet connection, the operating system is
initially unpatched, and the poor user's computer is immediately
infected. Not a good situation. Ordering the CD from

Microsoft is
what

the poor user is advised to do after the incident; there is *no*
protection prior to the incident, particularly for the

vast majority
of

users who have no clue. Microsoft could put a simple,

secure

tunneling
protocol into the installer that would firewall the

user's

connection
and phone home to Bill for the security updates as the

last step of
the

OS installation.

Q

Q

.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

The recall is handled through Windows Update.
Another difference is a license is not required to buy a computer,
though some say there should be something.