Dementia wrote:
] ] Microsoft pulled a security improvement for its Windows
] ] XP operating system after it apparently crippled many of
] ] the Internet connections of the roughly 600,000 users who
] ] installed it. According to this Associated Press report,
] ] the patch ('recommended' update 818043) was posted on the
] ] Windows-Update service last Friday, but didn't quite get
] ] along with Symantec products. The patch was intended to
] ] modify the way IPSec encryption was utilized by machines
] ] behind firewalls, as well as to improve the support of
] ] virtual private network VPN clients behind network
] ] address translation (NAT) hardware.
]
] So what else is new?

And why don't I let windows boxen do "automatic updates"? I rest my case your honor!

Laughing Boy

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