-=> Steven Horn wrote to Charles Scaglione <=-

 SH> Charles Scaglione (1:106/2000) wrote to Steven Horn at 13:02 on 25 Apr
 SH> 2003:

 CS> Definitely turn that "feature" off.  There are many tales of woe
 CS> floating around in the XP groups of people who automatically
 CS> downloaded  a security update from MS (Q 811493) that subsequently
 CS> slowed down their  system or caused it not to boot.  MS has
 CS> acknowledged the problems and  has issued a warning about it.

 SH> Q811493 gave my system no problems.  It was installed on the 16th of
 SH> April and my system reboots without any problems.  Its
 SH> performance is also unaffected.

 SH> I've also read the new cautions and am satisfied that the
 SH> problems are associated with Windows XP SP1.  I don't run
 SH> XP.

Apparently Q811493's slowdown problems are related to WinXP and some antivirus
software. It has been removed from the MS site, awaiting a new and (hopefully)
improved version.
... -- az: email to alan (at) zisman (dot) ca
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