Windows 2003 SP1

Windows 2003 SP1
Mark Burnett, 2005-04-05

Microsoft's release of Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 last week is loaded with security enhancements, and it's a big step in the right direction.

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Windows 2003 SP1 2005-04-05
Morphas

I had installed Service Pack1 for Windows Server 2003 on the very first day Microsoft released it. It took a while to download and install it, but it was fine... no complain as its a big chunk of data. After installation it asked for reboot. Soon as it was rebooted, i could see at least about 12 new...

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Windows 2003 SP1 2005-04-07
Andrey A. Platonov

There are some doubts on that "hot patching feature". We are all a bit paranoid ones so it is just a thought. This perfect new possibility may allow a bud guy with admin rights to "patch" your box with a brand new rootkit in just a few minutes without ever having to reboot.
Generally, executable ...

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Windows 2003 SP1 2005-04-07
Anonymous

SP1 for 2003 maybe more secure but, it still breaks things in a network. I hope the engineers and admins that think they know everything will test it in a real test lab identical to there own. You may regret it if you dont!!!...

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Windows 2003 SP1 2005-04-11
R. Hale (1 replies)

I'm no fan of M$ or Symantec because large
companies seem to ignore the little guy
(home user and/or samll business).

But my limited experience (about a week or so) with this product gets high marks.

To fully test all the features in this
Server Enterprise Flagship (and third
party sof...

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Windows 2003 SP1 2005-04-13
Anonymous (1 replies)

"Configured as more of a workstation, using an alternative browser, firewalls and av utilities, works suprisingly well."

I agree 110%/wholeheartedly.

I find that keeping up on Microsoft's patches to their Operating System &/or Office Suite (as well as IE) is the smart thing to do here in addit...

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Windows 2003 SP1 (Reply) 2005-04-14
R.Hale

Take a look at www.10gsuperman.com/user/Security%20r1.doc

(Its downloadable at the very bottom of the
10GsuperMAN.com page as "Security r1.doc")

and let me know of any ommisions or suggestions you might have (outside of
those darn on going DNS attacks on comcast).
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Windows 2003 SP1 Windows Firewall 2005-04-13
Barrie Dempster

" but at least it provides easy protection for even the most novice users. "

As long as they are expert enough to go switch it on, since it isn't on by default. Microsoft like to say "Secure by Default" they don't often like to do it though....

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Windows 2003 SP1 broke some things. 2005-04-14
Darth Reed (1 replies)

Real application compatibility would be a nice thing. SP1 has broken at least one ADO.NET method.

http://darthreed.blogspot.com/2005/04/new-and-interesting-bu
g-in-windows_14.html
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Windows 2003 SP1 broke some things. 2005-04-14
R.Hale (1 replies)

ONLY ONE ???

That is a physical impossibility because
(among other things) the author's (of this piece) bug count is up to at least two .,.

Maybe a lottery should be held for who can
guess the number of bugs after 6 months .,.

How about 1 found per day == 365/2 (hehe) ?...

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Re: Windows 2003 SP1 broke some things. 2005-06-15
Nagendra Reddy

Hi i am new to windows 2003 and installed service pack yesterday. some of my applications are not running properly. Its throwing error "The insturction at 0x00852039 referenced memory at 0x00852039. this memory could not be written". and the process which is writing / trying to write at this memory ...

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