By Jo Best, 22 September 2004 16:20
NEWS Microsoft has announced it is to patch a patch - it's fixed a hole in XP Service Pack 2.
Microsoft has published the patch through its website. It fixes a problem that installing XP SP2 creates with VPNs and can be downloaded here.
Once installed, XP SP2 can cause users to see a 'cannot establish a connection' message if a the machine tries to connect to IP addresses in the loopback address range, according to Microsoft's website.
However, Redmond won't be expecting too many hits on the patch yet. XP SP2 has only reached a fifth of the people Microsoft had hoped, missing its target by 80 million.
The patch is the second Microsoft has been prompted to offer following the emergence of XP SP2. Microsoft's CRM product also needed a fix to become compatible with the service pack.
The VPN fix is one of the downloads that features in a pilot programme to test if users' licences are genuine. To download the fix, users are required to have their licences validated through Microsoft's website.
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1. George Bedord
my p/c flatly refuses to down load MS XP SP2 ...
Furthur .. neither my spouse nor I want ANY more troubles than so far experienced and so with loads of bad press for sp2 we are trying NOT to download onto her Notebook until better reassuring statements are forthcomig ,
regards , Arthur .
2. Pocketts
ie; george Bedord? Hate to admit this... But is sounds like your computer is thinking in a more clear manner of thinking that you are. XP is loaded with internal-almost non deleatable spyware from Billy Bob's Club of desighner - Desighn folks.Even with the current patches-there isn't really any hope for this one . It should have been alltogather right long before it was offered on the open markets
3. anonymous
Buy a mag with XP SP2 for free I did and it works a treat. Plus save all that time downloading it