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Offline Waccoon

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Re: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service .net
« Reply #14 from previous page: May 11, 2003, 01:44:53 AM »
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Snuden:  Learn? IMHO they just don't care.

They're not mistakes. -- they're sales points.  If people tolerate it, anything is OK.

Really, I blame the public.  If they refused to use all this crap things would be much better.  I refuse to buy WinXP.  Period.

My biggest gripe with Passport is that it is constantly in your face.  Install WindowsXP, and it just pops out at you.  There's no way to turn it off.  Even if you get the icon to disappear from the taskbar, it's still running in the background.

The ultimate solution:  Use Windows2000 and don't download security updates.  Security updates just turn on all kinds of stupid features because now Microsoft verifies that they are "fixed".  I'm re-installing Win2000 and downgrading to IE5.5 because I've had so many security and reliability problems with IE6, never mind Passport!
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Re: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service .net
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2003, 10:06:35 AM »
I'm thinking about doing the same thing Waccoon.  I Haven't installed SP3 and run Zone Alarm Pro.. However M$ STILL has managed to get in and "update" somehow....

I now get weird "Your not licensed to hear this song" messages if I try to use WMP to listen to my Mp3's.

Please, Please ... Hurry up Hyperion.
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Re: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service .net
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2003, 12:10:39 PM »
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However M$ STILL has managed to get in and "update" somehow....


That is user error and has nothing to do with the firewall.

If you want to disable the autu-updates stuff quick and easy then get a register tweaker like X-Setup (http://www.xteq.com) and turn off all the auto update crap.
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Re: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service .net
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2003, 02:43:53 PM »
thx for thelink,  Paul ..i'll go check it out.
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Re: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service .net
« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2003, 12:21:32 AM »
Wacoon said:

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My biggest gripe with Passport is that it is constantly in your face. Install WindowsXP, and it just pops out at you.


I wonder what the hell I fixed, then?  The only mention I've seen of PassPort from WinXP since I installed it 7 months ago was during installation.  I clicked no and that was the last of it.
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Re: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service .net
« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2003, 04:16:11 PM »
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That is user error and has nothing to do with the firewall.


Correct :-)

Whoever it was who decided out of principle not to install Win2k SP3 and then decided to install Automatic Updating?  What are you, nuts?  Read up about the "critical patches" on Windows Update (as that's the only place that would have told you to install automatic updating) before installing them, and pay particular attention to the EULAs!

Running Win2k SP2, no WMP patches (or any others with dodgy "all your base" EULAs) and completely unassociated that vulnerability-ridden piece of crap (that would be WMP 6.4 in this case :-)) from all filetypes, and using Mozilla.  I'm safe :-)
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Re: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service .net
« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2003, 06:35:52 PM »
Ok.. So I'm a thickShit ...Whoopee Doo

Even more reason to get Os4
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Re: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service .net
« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2003, 08:59:21 PM »
The MS website no longer allows IE5.5 to be downloaded for Win2K, only WindowsME.  Figures.  IE6 does funky stuff with the taskbar and can disable "bring to front".  I hate that.

Anyone know where to get IE5.5?  You're supposed to be able to get it from certain CDROMs.

At least I have SP2 archived on my hard drive.
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Re: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service .net
« Reply #22 on: May 12, 2003, 09:02:11 PM »
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That is user error and has nothing to do with the firewall.

True.  However, it's enabled by default and you have to turn it off manually.  Hardly what I consider a user error.
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Re: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service .net
« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2003, 09:21:56 PM »
The thing is... I had auto update switched off.


Weird things still happened.
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