GSV said:
What are they saying in the US homebuilt groups? The UK opinion seems
to be that mostly it works (but doesn't add much for people who
already were wearing full protection. 8>.) but a few people have had
horrendous problems (and had to back it out, which strips your
machine =way= back) or lost particular devices, or whatever.
I don't know, I didn't bother reading any of them, just looked at the
subject lines for a quick glance over to make my point in this group.
I'm sitting here with an SP2 CD that MS finally sent me (took about 2
weeks) running backups to tape, prior to tossing a coin to see whether
to try it on one PC or not.
8>.
I wouldn't worry so much about it. I installed it on three computers
already, with no problems. In fact, one of those computers was a buddy's
computer who ALWAYS has problems after any sort of change is made to his
system. It's like he attracts lightening to himself. I did follow some
precautions prior to installation:
http://forums.g4techtv.com/messageview.cfm?catid=59&threadid=219022
But I found, I didn't even need to follow those precautions prior to
installing it. For me, I usually expect to be among the "exceptional cases",
which have problems in some form or another, but this time nothing.
Yeah, the service pack itself didn't really add too much to my security,
more than what I was already following. I did replace the ZoneAlarm and
Sygate (depending on computer) with the built-in Windows Firewall now. And
their are a few upgrades to Outlook Express that simply make it much more
secure now (for example, it won't automatically display graphics in email
messages, since a lot of it may be used by spammers to track whether your
email address actually exists or not).
Yousuf Khan