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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Firewall, FireFox, block attachments... your life is so much easier.
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That's pretty much what I was saying, Alex. I use Mozilla, Zone Alarm (um, you did say you use a firewall just now, right? ZA is the one I use), and have my McAfee anti-virus configured to auto-upgrade its data files and to auto-delete any suspicious email attachments before I ever see 'em. And I've never had a virus infection or OS takeover either. Now since I appear to have close to 100% protection already with little or no effort on my part, why would I voluntarily agree to "upgrade" to something that will not offer me any more protection than I already have, but
will break a major crucial piece of hardware/software I use in my business (Pinnacle Studio 9)?
I'd agree with you that for the clueless who know nothing about the importance of firewalls and about the holes in IE and Outlook, the default settings of the SP2 upgrade will offer them
some additional amount of protection. But not nearly as much as what I have installed and running just fine already with my 3rd-party applications.
For the record, I wouldn't have trusted Zone Alarm or McAfee's first software versions either. But they've been doing these apps for years now, while SP2 is MS's first-ever attempt at doing 'em - and I could probably find the pointer to the list of major exploits that ZA catches that got right through the SP2 firewall (though presumably one of the later SP2 patches may have fixed some of that).
In an ideal world, I'd be running some flavor of Unix, and if I ever start operating my own server network instead of using a webhost, my servers sure won't be running any flavor of MS.