Re: Automatic shutdown of infected network connections

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