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Welcome to the Viruswarning forums. All your original content has been ported to the new forums as well as new content and additional opportunities to interact with the authors of Viruswarn.com. You can always access old content at www.leedrake.com/forum . You may find some formatting was lost in the conversion and the older versions of the posts to be more readable....
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David Gray
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| 10/16/2002 1:48 PM |
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| There's been a lot of traffic on Windows XP Service Pack 1. My advice is - back up your important files before installing it, but DO install it.
There are recorded and documented incidences of Service Pack 1 completely locking up a machine after installation, to the point where it won't boot - even to the console mode for system recovery. Thus it would be wise to back up your machine, do NOT apply the patch when you may critically need your machine in the very near future, and make a system recovery disk prior to applying the service pack (you do this using the BACKUP utility in XP). This is good advice for ANY SERVICE PACK, but in this case, I'd strongly recommend it.
On the other hand SP1 has several VERY CRITICAL updates to your operating system to help protect you from viruses, trojans, unauthorized access and buffer overflows. Some of the pre-SP1 vulnerabilities can allow complete control of your machine. We've had very good success with SP1 here at our offices - it has gone flawlessly for us. I'd highly recommend you do this important update.
Now for the really bad news. This service pack is HUGE and Microsoft's download servers don't seem to be up to the task of serving it out quickly. Expect LONG download times (I left my machines to download overnight - even though it's on a cable modem). Also expect the actual installation process to take a long time. If you're running ZoneAlarm, you may want to UNINSTALL ZONE ALARM while applying the patch and download the newest version and REINSTALL ZONE ALARM after you have the patch applied. You will NOT lose your settings if you do this.
If you're updating a number of machines, I'd recommend downloading the whole patch ONCE and applying it from a network share, rather than individually running windows update on each machine.
Here is where to get Service Pack 1:
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
For network administrators, or anyone with more than one machine:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default.asp?FinishURL=%2Fdownloads%2Frelease%2Easp%3Freleaseid%3D42054%26area%3Dtop%26ordinal%3D14%26redirect%3Dno
Lee Drake
Aztek Computer Solutions, Inc.
39 N. Goodman St.
Rochester, NY 14607
716-242-2060 soon to be 585-242-2060 (Nov 1st, 2002)
ldrake@aztekcs.net
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