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Poetic Justic - the Register advocates XP SP2

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/21/register_adserver_attack/

I'm not saying that it's good that anyone's been hacked, simply that publicity to get people to install XP SP2 is a good thing.

Published Monday, November 22, 2004 2:31 PM by Steve Lamb

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# re: Poetic Justic - the Register advocates XP SP2

You've gotta be kidding me. Poetic Justice? Justice has been served on The Register? For what transgression?

If anything, its their readers, who are using internet explorer who have suffered this 'poetic justice'.

Noet that their readers using browsers other than internet explorer have not suffered this 'poetic justice'.

Frankly I see neither poetry nor justice in any of this.

""" If you may have visited The Register between 6am and 12.30pm GMT on Saturday, Nov 20 using any Windows platform bar XP SP2 we strongly advise you to check your machine with up to date anti-virus software, to install SP2 if you are running Windows XP, and to strongly consider running an alternative browser, at least until Microsoft deals with the issue."""

Monday, November 22, 2004 2:52 PM by damien morton

# re: Poetic Justic - the Register advocates XP SP2

The Register recommends upgrading to and installing the latest version of Windows, with the latest security fixes, if you're running Windows. That's not advocacy, that's just common sense.
Monday, November 22, 2004 3:04 PM by Peter da Silva

# re: Poetic Justic - the Register advocates XP SP2

An iframe vulnerbility has been announced for Windows XP sp2. Watch out...
Monday, November 22, 2004 3:40 PM by Phil Scott

# re: Poetic Justic - the Register advocates XP SP2

The only part I found noteworthy about this article is that it appears that this flaw has only been fixed in XP sp2. Kinda sad that unless you want to spend money on an operating system upgrade you are left out in the cold.
Monday, November 22, 2004 5:55 PM by Kristoffer Henriksson

# re: Poetic Justic - the Register advocates XP SP2

I wouldn't really call attention to the fact that they recommend upgrading to the latest version because of serious security flaws in the previous versions.
Monday, November 22, 2004 6:25 PM by Kyle Baley

# re: Poetic Justic - the Register advocates XP SP2

"Poetic justice" is more applicable to the Register publishing a slashdotty security scare piece about all the "useless" services that SP2 leaves turned on(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/02/winxpsp2_security_review/), and then having to follow it up with an article begging readers not to turn them off, because they break Windows (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/14/reg_readers_windows/).
Monday, November 22, 2004 7:28 PM by Jonathan Hardwick [MSFT]
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