From: "Geo." 

Didn't we start by you saying symantec's words didn't mean what they mean?

Geo.

"Rich"  wrote in message news:45eb1331$1{at}w3.nls.net...
   Duh!  If the words had exactly the same meaning and connotations then we
wouldn't likely have different words.  If you and geo would like to play
word games instead of discussing the actual content go ahead.

Rich

  "Hrvoje Mesing"  wrote in message
news:45eb07a4{at}w3.nls.net...

  ?
  Not true.

  Critical CAN be needed as unneeded CAN be critical.
  Says my grandmother.

  ...

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  M.



  "Rich"  wrote in message news:45e9d602$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     Roget's Thesaurus disagrees.  See
  http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/critical%20needed.

  Rich

  "Hrvoje Mesing"  wrote in message
  news:45e9a6fd{at}w3.nls.net...

  unneeded != not critical.


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  M.


  "Rich"  wrote in message news:45e6f39e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     unneeded == unnecessary == optional == not critical.

  Rich
  "Geo."  wrote in message
news:45e6b7c7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  Hmmm... "unneeded", "auxiliary", "not
critical", I don't see the term
  "unnecessary optional" in there at all Rich.

  Would you say the dns client service is unneeded, auxiliary, not critical?
I
  certainly would unless you are on a large corporate LAN and you argued
with
  me about it. See your idea of unneeded and mine are vastly different. To
you
  unneeded is something that is not used at all, to me it's anything you can
  shut down without breaking the functionality you need.

  I would think the security guys at Symantec (the ones who made that
  recommendation) would think like me and judging from the size of their
  products lately, management and the programmers think like you.

  That would explain why they make such a recommendation and at the same
time
  get exploited as a virus entry point..

  Geo.

  "Rich"  wrote in message news:45e66bb5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     Better understanding, I don't think so.  Different opinion, absolutely.
  There is nothing wrong with disabling unnecessary optional services.  What
  you do is flailing.

  Rich

    "Geo."  wrote in message
news:45e64067$2{at}w3.nls.net...
    "Rich"  wrote in message news:45e4eb2b$1{at}w3.nls.net...

    >>   Now you are trying to read more into what symantec wrote.

    Or perhaps I just have a better understanding of that line of thought.

    Geo.

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