RE: XP SP2

["Schwartz, Nathan" <Nathan.Schwartz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Being a risky person, I've been using SP2 Beta for months and just upgraded to SP2.

 See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en 

This download is the full thing. With WindowsUpdate your dounload may be much smaller if you have some components already installed. With the full SP2, you will be able to install it on any XP machine. Just burned it on a cd and/or made a network share for network installations; Much faster. So far I've installed it on over 20 machines with no problems.

I have no problems with any of my software such as Office, Millennium, webOPAC, and Norton AntiVirus 9 (which is on the list). The popup blocker warns you every time it blocks something and gives you a choice if you would like to allow or permanently block a domain for future popups. The firewall prompts you when a program is communicating. I think the firewall is the main problem, but if you just allow a program to run when prompted it works just fine. 

SP2 has an uninstall option so test it on a few machines and get used to the popup blocker and firewall and you'll like it. It's a complete turn around for security and should vastly change the threat of being online.

Nathan Schwartz
Electronic Resources/ Reference Librarian
Indiana Wesleyan University
4201 South Washington Street
Marion, IN  46953
 
email: nathan.schwartz@xxxxxxxxxx
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-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:55 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Re: XP SP2

Bob Duncan wrote:

> At 12:27 PM 08/18/2004 -0400, Scott wrote:
>
>> There is another Knowledge Base article being updated daily that 
>> lists the programs which are known to have conflicts with SP2.  I 
>> believe this is the list to which Tom referred:
>>
>> Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 884130 'Programs that may behave 
>> differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2'
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130
>
>
>
> At the risk of splitting hairs (which I actually enjoy) and defending 
> Microsoft (which I find horrifying), this is not a list of programs 
> which are "known to have conflicts" with SP2;  this is a list of 
> programs that "may behave differently" under SP2.  Different behavior 
> is not necessarily a conflict.  (Although the program where "behaving 
> differently" means the sucker doesn't work will clearly result in 
> conflict somewhere.)
>
> ...and...
>
> At 01:23 PM 08/18/2004 -0500, Todd wrote:
>
>> The issue will not be with us in general it will be with the OPAC 
>> which system generates window.open() commands which the new IE will 
>> block as a pop-up... yes, turning off the pop-up blocker should fix 
>> this, but I expect the public will not know to do this unless we tell them.
>
>
> It is my understanding that the only pop-up windows which will be 
> blocked by the IE pop-up blocker are those which are automatically 
> generated by scripts (like the annoying windows which pop up on many 
> commercial sites).  It is my understanding that pop-up windows which 
> are generated by user action (like the ones likely to be encountered 
> in OPACs when users click a link which produces a new window) will not 
> be blocked.  (But I'll admit my understanding of the intricacies of 
> pop-up windows is pretty thin.)  Are there any instances in the III 
> WebOPAC of pop-up windows which are not generated by user actions?
>
> I am eager to install SP2 but it is not yet available to me.  Has 
> anyone with XP-Pro actually installed it and run Millennium apps and 
> the WebOPAC to see if there are any real problems?
>
> Bob Duncan
>
>
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I have installed on 2 test machines running Millenium. So far we have had no problems at all, though it does seems to run a "little" bit slow but hadly to shout about(it could be just the current stats of the network).
We also run Sophos anti virus and there were no issues. IE, Firefox and netscape browser have had no issues at all. All in all it seems fine, at this stage in time

Cheers
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