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Re: Automatic shutdown of infected network connections

  • From: Mike Tancsa
  • Date: Wed Sep 03 10:52:21 2003 
At 10:41 AM 03/09/2003 -0400, Omachonu Ogali wrote:

And if you just bought a new system, it should have the big update
(SP2) installed on the machine already, unless you're dealing with
an incompetent PC manufacturer/reseller/whatever that likes to cut
corners (say something idiotic like buying plain XP OEM CDs instead
of XP+SP2 OEM CDs because it saves them $1-3 per seat from some gray
distributor) or not stay up to speed on MS security because they
don't want to deal with after-sale support or provide it.

FYI, the last 3 Dell laptops we bought (2 weeks ago) all needed about 56MB of patches OOTB

---Mike