RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

["Randal, Phil" <prandal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I presume he's talking about this one:

"Programs that connect to IP addresses that are in the loopback address
range may not work as you expect in Windows XP Service Pack 2"

  http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=884020

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Ron DuFresne
> Sent: 15 November 2004 20:02
> To: Gregory Gilliss
> Cc: full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox
> 
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Gregory Gilliss wrote:
> 
> > One comment about XP2 - the company where I work (which produces 
> > security networking appliances) has a corporate policy - we do not 
> > support XP2. Sales hates this (because all the numbnuts out 
> there are 
> > pulling SP2 down with autoupdate and they have no clue what 
> they have 
> > brought upon themselves) but since M$ was so idiotic as to 
> disable the 
> > network functionality that allows reverse proxies to 
> function properly 
> > (and I'm not talking about Juniper's back door where they 
> pipe things 
> > straight through) it basically makes my company's (and every other 
> > company's) product break.
> >
> > The really dumb part is that M$ has a patch for their 
> misdeeds and a 
> > knowledge base article and everything - but it's not incoroporated 
> > into autoupdate. Wonder why they would not include that fix 
> for SP2 in 
> > autoupdate? Maybe they *want* to break other company's products?
> > Nah ... <G>
> >
> 
> I'm sure many would have liked to the the direct link to the sp2 fix.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron DuFresne
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