MUST KNOW!!!! WixXP Service pack 2

[Winux P]

:> You are a lemming, and the lemmings in front of you are all jumping off
of
: > a cliff. What do you do?
:
: I try to be a well-informed one and work out who the well-informed ones
are
: around me so we can stick together

The "well informed" will also tell you that Win98, WinMe, Win2K to SP4,
WinXP with no service pack to SP 2 are all just as secure as each other if
you have a good firewall, antivirus software and spyware immunisers and
scanners. Don't go to porn or crack code sites, don't open the
GiveMeAVirus.exe file that comes with an email titled, "Here's the file you
wanted". SP2 does not equate to security, otherwise everyone with a previous
version of Windows would be at high risk. Bollocks!

: > the light of day in 2007 or maybe even 2008, so if the OP wants to
follow
: > his friends advise, that is OK for him.
:
: I don't have a problem with that.

I do, if I purchased an OS that needed fixing, I'd want it fixed pronto.

: But, we don't know why his friend offered this advice.

: --
: Regards
:
: John Waller
:
- Winux P

 

[Winux P]

: Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry wrote:
: > A computer expert friend of mine advised me to not install WinXP Service
Pack
: > 2.
:
:
: First of all, there would be very, very few reasons *not* to install
: Service Pack 2. Were I you, I'd get a second opinion; your friend
: sounds like nothing approaching an expert to me, unless he was able to
: give you sound technical reasons that you simply didn't bother to relay.
:
:
: > Unfortunately, Automatic Updates, which I have since switched to to
: > "Notify me, but don't automatically download or install them" has
downloaded
: > Service Pack 2 and every tike I start my laptop, it pesters me about
: > installing Win Service Pack 2. How do I get automatic updates to delete
what
: > it has downloaded and to QUIT PESTERING ME!!
: >
:
:
: Install it.
:

And will you eat the proverbial humble pie if the OP does, and his whole
machine turns to rot as a result of him doing so Bruce? Are you willing to
pick up the posts he may send to help fix it???

- Winux P ;~O)

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: safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

 

[Rhonda Lea Kirk]

And that pic has my knee hurting just thinking about the landing!

Nah.

I only had 36 parachute jumps at the time of that jump and the landing
area at New River Gorge is very, very small, so I landed in the river.

<shivers> It was cold that year ('97). I 'bout froze my...yes, well, I
was freezing...but it was a very soft, splashy landing.

What I learned the year after is that the real danger lies in taking a
long delay on a wet canopy.

Oh, my aching neck.

rl

 

[John Waller]

Who really cares? SP1 is still secure as long as the patches are up to

date.

I trust you're joking.

 

[John Waller]

: > the light of day in 2007 or maybe even 2008, so if the OP wants to

follow
: > his friends advise, that is OK for him.
:
: I don't have a problem with that.

I do, if I purchased an OS that needed fixing, I'd want it fixed pronto.

I think that's a different issue.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

"I'm no longer a Windows user at all, and refuse to even consider Vista when
it comes out."

Then why are you here?

He hasn't got anything better to do and he is bored to death because
whatever he is using hasn't got as lively a NG as this one!!!

 

[kurttrail]

I trust you're joking.

Nope. SP1 is secure as it can be.

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"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[John Waller]

Who really cares? SP1 is still secure as long as the patches are up

Nope. SP1 is secure as it can be.

OK then.

 

[Winux P]

:> : > the light of day in 2007 or maybe even 2008, so if the OP wants to
: > follow
: > : > his friends advise, that is OK for him.
: > :
: > : I don't have a problem with that.
: >
: > I do, if I purchased an OS that needed fixing, I'd want it fixed pronto.
:
: I think that's a different issue.
:
: --
: Regards
:
: John Waller
:

I know it's not.

- Winux P

 

[Bruce Chambers]

And will you eat the proverbial humble pie if the OP does, and his whole
machine turns to rot as a result of him doing so Bruce? Are you willing to
pick up the posts he may send to help fix it???

I'm quite confident that the OP'd be far better off with SP2 than
without it.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

 

[John Waller]

:> : > the light of day in 2007 or maybe even 2008, so if the OP wants to

: > follow
: > : > his friends advise, that is OK for him.
: > :
: > : I don't have a problem with that.
: >
: > I do, if I purchased an OS that needed fixing, I'd want it fixed
pronto.
:
: I think that's a different issue.

I know it's not.

Whatever.

 

[kurttrail]

Whatever.

LOL!

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Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[Winux P]

: John Waller wrote:
:
: >>>> I do, if I purchased an OS that needed fixing, I'd want it fixed
: >>>> pronto.
: >>>
: >>> I think that's a different issue.
: >>
: >> I know it's not.
: >
: > Whatever.
:
: LOL!
:
: --
: Peace!
: Kurt Kirsch
: Self-anointed Moderator
: http://microscum.com
: "It'll soon shake your Windows
: And rattle your walls
: For the times they are a-changin'."
:

I know me to, you have to be older to realise that youth really is ill spent
on the young.

- Winux P

 

[Rhonda Lea Kirk]

...you have to be older to realise that youth really is
ill spent on the young.

Ain't that the truth. :-|

 

[mamamia]

I trust you're smoking.

OOOOOooooooh...smoking what?!? ;-)

 

[John Waller]

I know me to, you have to be older to realise that youth really is ill

spent
on the young.

Agreed!