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Feast of Egos
Tim Mullen, 2004-09-07

Eager to tarnish Microsoft's shiny new Service Pack 2, the security press managed to spin the most thin and marginal issues into "gaping holes" and "security craters."

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SP2 = MS-hyped Snake Oil 2004-09-14
Matthew Murphy
Tim,

You make a good point about the severity of the holes reported thus far. However, the default configurations of Windows Firewall that I have seen expose the "protected" systems to attacks in spite of the firewall being running.

Also, the LMZ Lockdown feature in IE is a joke -- as folder ...

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