On Saturday 04 December 2004 12:21, Simon Utley wrote:
> All you guys/girls out there who make their living of fixing M$,
> a friend is going to reinstall Windose 2000 on his box. Will he
> be OK behind a firewall as he downloads all the patches/updates.
No. - I tried just that (WinXP) with ZoneAlarm active on my
daughters PC. After downloading SP2 from Microsoft her box was
severely compromized once again.
In short : No Windows box should never - ever - be allowed on any
network.
Kaj Haulrich.
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