XP SP2 RC1 is out

[Daniel Turini]

Ok, from this we can almost compile a list applications that suck:

• MacAfee
• Sun JVM
• Spybot S&D
• Zone alarm
• ICQ Lite
• PrintShop 20
• Norton AntiVirus
• VirusScan 7.1
• Roxio
  :-D Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski

[Judah Gabriel Himango]

:rolleyes::laugh: --------------------------- He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. -Lao Tsu

[wrykyn]

I notice that it enforces the firewall. Infact I've knows this for sometime. The network repository at our office dies like a duck when we enable the firewall on XP. Think its going to cause a problem. Atleast its not my problem ..I'm not the admin :) " Invading armies can be stopped but nothing can stop an idea whose time has come " - Voltaire

[Stephane Rodriguez]

Is it worse than MyDoom? How do we protect from it? ;-)

[Stephane Rodriguez]

I have read somewhere that 100% ATL-Window apps will break, because the thunk it uses to redirect wndproc is now a heap violation. Not sure at the moment if WTL apps are also broken. Gotta love frameworks... ;-)

[Lost User]

Or let the foolhardybrave rush in first ? Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

[Marc Clifton]

Ramanan Sivan wrote: dies like a duck I've never seen a duck die. I've eaten duck, but it was already dead. Do they just go to sleep and never wake up? Are there stories of little children being hit on the head by a dead duck falling from the sky? Curious minds want to know! :-D Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C# MyXaml MyXaml Blog

[Frederick S Jones]

Who'd be dumb enough to do that? :eek: I was referring to (but should have said explicitly) my home machine...I consider it a 'production' machine too, to a large degree. Frederick S Jones
"Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!"

[Matt Newman]

Judah H. wrote: Wow, that's a lot of breaks! Goes to show how fragile software is today. Most of those programs I figured wouldn't work; anti-virus apps are incompatible with new security settings or firewall settings, firewall software has problems with the new MS firewall settings, and some networking apps like IMs stop working due to the firewall changes. I guess I wasn't expecting CD burning software to stop working though. And Java problems...maybe I shouldn't be suprised there heheh. Norton AV Corporate doesn't break, and java doesn't break for me. As for firewall, you can see my latest post... :rolleyes: Matt Newman
All rise for the honorable Judge Stone Cold Steve Austin - From Dilbert Episode 30

[Matt Newman]

Ramanan Sivan wrote: I notice that it enforces the firewall. Infact I've knows this for sometime. The network repository at our office dies like a duck when we enable the firewall on XP. Think its going to cause a problem. Atleast its not my problem ..I'm not the admin You can disable it, although configuring it for one adapter and not another is hairy. Matt Newman
All rise for the honorable Judge Stone Cold Steve Austin - From Dilbert Episode 30

[wrykyn]

Never gave it that much thought. Now I'm determined to find out all about duck mortality that I can. Will be back soon! " Invading armies can be stopped but nothing can stop an idea whose time has come " - Voltaire