On Apr 3, 10:39 pm, Maxwell Lol wrote:
Fred the Red Shirt writes:

You forgot to mention the versions of XP home that required the
user to connect to MS over the internet and without any firewall or
other protections in order to complete the installation.

I had the same problem with Linux years ago. It was a new install,
and while downloading hte latest patches, it was compromised.


Out sysadmin found out (the hard way) that a patch from HP
reset our mailserver to an open relay.

Of course the documentation from HP didn't warn about that,
it was obvious--to them.

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FF