Protection Or Lack Thereof

July 21st, 2004 - 19:24 | 2 comments

I just came across a program called ‘ConfigSafe’. It popped up when I tried to install Ad-Aware, saying that this would change my system settings, and did I want to proceed. Thing is, I’d just installed Win2k Service Pack 4 on the computer without a warning of any kind. As long as it’s a well written program

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2 Responses to “Protection Or Lack Thereof”

1 Nodster Jul 22nd, 2004 at 10:50 am

its usually pretty good - ibm made us have it at one point - but it just p’d me right off. I think it checks the authenticity of the installations - microsoft embed fields in to ensure its clearly identifiable as a critical patch not some patch to install a load of trojans masquerading as a service pack. but your the msc proffesional u tell us hehehe
2 Ed Jul 24th, 2004 at 5:28 pm

the patches should get checked by the windows updater anyway since they should be checksummed and signed.

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