BoomerSooner
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| reply to Logan 5
Re: Win XP SP2 RC2
I don't believe the vulnerability affects users running SP2. That is most likely why you don't see the update available.
As far as I can tell from both Microsoft's and CERT's website, PC's with SP2 installed are NOT affected.
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Mark_Venture
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| said by BoomerSooner  :
I don't believe the vulnerability affects users running SP2. That is most likely why you don't see the update available.
As far as I can tell from both Microsoft's and CERT's website, PC's with SP2 installed are NOT affected.
Question... if it is true that SP2 isn't affected, it would imply that MS knew about and fixed the bug a few weeks ago or more (when was the last SP2 RC version released?) but did NOT release the fix right away.
Why such a lag?
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BoomerSooner
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| said by Mark_Venture :
... it would imply that MS knew about and fixed the bug a few weeks ago ...
Not necessarily. The vulnerability could be blocked by one (or more) of the ENHANCEMENTS that MS has added to the security features with SP2. Chances are MS found some means of blocking several different avenues of exploiting XP and apparently, it's working thus far (knock on wood).
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