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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
If you had bothered to check the McAfee site, you would have found that they
are aware of this issue, and have posted instructions for fixing it. This knowledge base article can be found at: https://knowledgemap.nai.com/phpclient/viewKDoc.aspx?externalID=KB_KB37807&sessionID=Anon ymous|1189859261&sliceID=&docID=KC.KB_KB37807&url= kb/kb_kb37807.xml&dialogID=10017476&docType=DOC_Knowl edgeBase&iterationID=1&docName=Configuring%20the%2 0McAfee%20Common%20Management%20Agent%20to%20updat e%20on%20Microsoft%20Windows%20XPSP2 Expecting any company to automatically configure their software to work with other software automatically is unrealistic, but it is generally a good idea to check with the manufacturer of the software you are having the issue with (in this case McAfee) for advise. If you had you would have found that the fix takes about 2 minutes to implement and is much simpler than what you were attempting. "Steve" wrote: I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently" firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page. Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again. DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!! STEVE! |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
I'm running two Sony P4's with XP Professional on each... I do a lot of
database development with Access and Excel interfaces... and the upgrade to SP2 went off without a hitch... the two machines are networked together and I upgraded both of them at the same time... I'm also running Trendmicro Internet Security on my main machine with my internet connection... Everything is working just fine after the upgrade... "Steve" wrote: I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently" firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page. Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again. DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!! STEVE! |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
The average techie would assume (probably wrongly) that you had already virus scanned the install package. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 02:03:05 -0700, Andrew wrote: It is generally accepted by the average user that disabling AV in order to install a program that may or may not contain a virus just means the techies are techie by name but not by nature..... "Mike H" wrote: It is generally accepted that a/v should be disabled when installing programs, even though it it not always necessary so to do.. "Alias" wrote in message ... "Gregg Cattanach" wrote "Steve" wrote I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently" firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page. Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again. DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!! SP2 has worked perfectly for me and for 10s of thousands of other users. I doubt very seriously that you have contacted "10s of thousands of other users". I gather you failed to read that your anti-virus should be OFF when you install SP2. You act like your experience was based on how SP2 was written, not on your sloppy installation method. -- Gregg C. The only instruction from MS is activate AU. Nothing about AVs, programs running in the background, etc. This is irresponsible. Period. Your patronizing and denigrating attitude towards non-techies is not warranted. Alias |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
Rubbish! If a user downloads an email with a virus then runs the program with the virus, then he/she bypasses the firewall. If he then connects to the Internet, his/her system will try to sned the virus to others. A firewall that scans only incoming Internet connections only does half the job. That said, if you have a personal firewall AND good virus checking the need for a two way firewall is reduced. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 06:59:48 +1000, "David Candy" wrote: It's all it needs to do. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.newmatilda.com/home/default.asp "CS" wrote in message ... On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:03:07 -0700, "DaveJunioR" wrote: Absolute BS. The only holes are in your advice. The SP2 firewall only protects incoming not outgoing requests. |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
I had an absolutely smooth install of SP2. I disabled my AV (Norton AV 2004)
and things went off just great. The only "problem" I had was Norton complaining about its status being checked by other programs. A simple check box took care of that though. Love SP2. Great job MS. |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
Simply running LiveUpdate will download and install the Norton patch that
will update VMI, and then Windows Security Center will recognize the status of both Norton AV and Norton Firewall. Bobby "Jacob Koppang" Jacob wrote in message ... I had an absolutely smooth install of SP2. I disabled my AV (Norton AV 2004) and things went off just great. The only "problem" I had was Norton complaining about its status being checked by other programs. A simple check box took care of that though. Love SP2. Great job MS. |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
I have just finished reading many of the replies to this message, and I
must say: Wow! There are alot of "developers" out there having problems, and flying off the handle without being completely informed. I call them "developers" only because they are using Visual Studio (and that's the only reason). Like so many others out there, I have a pretty heavily loaded development environment (including AV running) and I installed SP2 without incident. Everything has worked wonderfully ever since and I'm fairly impressed with the update. I hope that the ones having such difficulty with the product will identify where the problems lie, and be able to remedy them quickly, but I feel that it's a bit premature to place the blame for all these problems on Microsoft's shoulders. JRB "Bassem Srouji" wrote in message .. . I had my part of problem installing SP2 everything go streight forward and my computer was up and running after installing SP2 and then I realise that my second hard drive is no longer seen by windows so I had my C drive which was ok, but my H Drive which is my second hard drive on the computer was listed in my computer but every time I try to access it it say can not find path ... I had to remove SP2 and then everything came back to normal Bassem "Steve" wrote in message ... I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently" firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page. Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again. DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!! STEVE! |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
JRB wrote:
I have just finished reading many of the replies to this message, and I must say: Wow! There are alot of "developers" out there having problems, and flying off the handle without being completely informed. I call them "developers" only because they are using Visual Studio (and that's the only reason). Like so many others out there, I have a pretty heavily loaded development environment (including AV running) and I installed SP2 without incident. Everything has worked wonderfully ever since and I'm fairly impressed with the update. I hope that the ones having such difficulty with the product will identify where the problems lie, and be able to remedy them quickly, but I feel that it's a bit premature to place the blame for all these problems on Microsoft's shoulders. I suspect your sample of one is at least as biased an estimator of the true fraction of problems as the sampling obtained by reading this thread... |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
If people are so worried about security, they shouldn't be using windows in the first place... Even point and click too hard for you, consider buying a type writer. |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
Well, I am sure there are others that experience problems with SP2. I agree
with others that Steve came down from the hill a little strong on the other hand I did experience a weird problem in IE after installing SP2m not on all machines but still. Even if popup blocker is turned off, IE still seems to put its digital fingers on it but allowing the new window to open but then the pages seems to hang. When I press the stop button followed by the Go button the requested page comes up just fine. I haven't had a chance to research it further but if there are others that know of this problem and have a solution, please let me know. Thanks, Wayne, If you have a software problem, take a deep breath, a warm shower, a nice cup-a-coffee then just solve it! "Steve" wrote: I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently" firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page. Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again. DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!! STEVE! |
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Steve I could not agree with you more. I think every one should boycot SP2 ..
it sux SP2 completely destroyed the network I had running perfectly at home. It took me a whole freeking day to fix everything. What the heck was Microsoft Thinking "Steve" wrote: I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently" firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page. Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again. DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!! STEVE! |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
"What the heck was Microsoft Thinking"
Easy, security. Learn how to use it properly instead of simply discarding security so quickly. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ "Marc" wrote in message ... Steve I could not agree with you more. I think every one should boycot SP2 .. it sux SP2 completely destroyed the network I had running perfectly at home. It took me a whole freeking day to fix everything. What the heck was Microsoft Thinking |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
Microsoft should have labled it SP2 Beta.
"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote: "What the heck was Microsoft Thinking" Easy, security. Learn how to use it properly instead of simply discarding security so quickly. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/ "Marc" wrote in message ... Steve I could not agree with you more. I think every one should boycot SP2 .. it sux SP2 completely destroyed the network I had running perfectly at home. It took me a whole freeking day to fix everything. What the heck was Microsoft Thinking |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
The popup blocker in SP2 is driving me crazy. Its a total pain when tring to
develop and run web apps in whideby. I can completely turn off popup blocking and when running an website in whideby's new virtual iis it just blocks all popups anyway. Does anyone have any ideas?? I think I am going to get rid of SP2. "Steve" wrote: I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently" firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page. Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again. DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!! STEVE! |
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SP2 what a bunch of @#$!!!
You can go to internet options...advanced tab and check allow active
content to run in My Computer. "CODER" wrote in message ... The popup blocker in SP2 is driving me crazy. Its a total pain when tring to develop and run web apps in whideby. I can completely turn off popup blocking and when running an website in whideby's new virtual iis it just blocks all popups anyway. Does anyone have any ideas?? I think I am going to get rid of SP2. "Steve" wrote: I had a PERFECTLY normal, secure, wonderful (hah!) running system before I installed SP2 for Windows XP, which destroyed EVERYTHING!!!! I had McAfee Security Service running, which apparently conflicted with windows security, in spite of windows trying their best to make it as generic as possible. Well, after UNINSTALLING mcafee and telling the dumb, !@#$!@ windows Firewall to shutup and let port 10277 be accessible from outside the network, it still did NOT allow 10277 (just a random port -- it has no significance by the way) to be accessed from outside the network. I then switched the firewall OFF and it STILL "silently" firewalled my computer WITHOUT my concent!!!!!THEN! on top of ALL of this, INTERNET EXPLORER started misbehaving. Every time I try browsing a site, I have to refresh bloody ten times to get it to display the page. Most of the times I get the "Page cannot be displayed - check your connection" error and God knows what else. I'm tired of this.. I've uninstalled it and I am PRAYING that my computer becomes USABLE again. DO NOT INSTALL SP2 unless you know nothing about computers and all you do on your desktop is check emails and use MICROSOFT'S MSN!!! STEVE! |
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