From: "Robert Comer" 

I've been having a BSOD about once a week on my WinXPPro computer ever
since I installed that one -- I wonder if it has an uninstall.....

- Bob Comer


"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:sl334vcfgeumdvmn5nt8vb7tbkfkrc0vcu{at}4ax.com...
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7610
>
>
> =====
> RANDOM CRASHES AND SAFE or reliable but vulnerable, the choice was yours
if
> you were running Windows NT4 up until a few hours ago. Microsoft has just
> withdrawn a patch for the ageing but widespread operating system after
> users discovered the fix caused more trouble than it was worth. The patch
> was designed to kill a security vulnerability on Windows NT4, 2000 and XP.
> It was possible for a malicious user to gain privileges on a machine they
> had logged into by using inter-process communications, in particular
> WM_TIMER. However, the patch proved to be a dangerous thing to install on
> NT4. ...
> =====
>
> Yet another reason not to allow Microsoft unfettered access to my PC, per
> the more recent EULAs.
>
>  /m

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