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04-06-2004, 04:46 PM
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Security Updat CD....
I sent away for this back in March, more out of curiosity then anything else, after I read about it on this forum.
Well it just arrived today and I got several surprises. 1. It's up to date. All patches through Feb. 2004. 2. It's got beta versions of the new the windows firewall and anti-virus software. 3. It has a tutorial that actually covers such things as open ports. I don't have time just now to try it out but it's beginning to look as if M$ actually put some real effort into this thing. edit: took another look at the av and firewall it's by a company called eTrust. Anyone know about them ?
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04-06-2004, 08:39 PM
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got mine today too, isn't e trust the same same company that offers the firewall/virus on roadrunner broadband?
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04-06-2004, 09:54 PM
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really neat, got mine yesterday
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04-06-2004, 10:03 PM
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If it's Etrust then the firewalls is prolly Zone Alarm PRO. Also Etrust is Computer Associates and if it is like the free year subsciption that was availble a few months ago it is Zone Alarm PRO and the AV is pretty good.
Looks like the free offer is still good more on etrust http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?&threadid=80641
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04-06-2004, 10:22 PM
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Now I'm lookin forward to mine! Got an email that it's on the way - but think it's goin' by way of Sydney or Singapore. Now I know why it's called Snail Mail.
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04-08-2004, 03:36 PM
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The firewall is in fact Zone Alarm, but the antivirus isn't that good. It lets stuff through that AVG catches.
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04-08-2004, 03:49 PM
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Good info guys. I'm still waiting for mine, which I ordered in February
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04-08-2004, 03:55 PM
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This new MS Security CD is pretty slick. Got mine yesterday and tried it in one of my XP Home machines. It told me everything is up to date. Today I assembled a new AMD toy to play with and loaded an older 98se os on it. When I inserted the Security Update CD and said 'install' it installed all the updates, restarted several times without touching the machine, included latest IE6, WMP9, and DX9. When it was finished I went to the Windows Update site and there were two critical upadates and 3 optional that I chose to install. Took a grand total of about 3 minutes to do it all! Very handy.
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04-08-2004, 04:13 PM
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Mine came already also, and as stated above it looks like a good thing from MS and didn't even have to pay shipping!!
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01-13-2006, 08:06 PM
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Old thread...does any one know of a newer version now....I checked MS.com and couldn't find anything via search.... I entered the full name and then update cd....came up nothing....?I have the Feb 2004 and would like to get a newer version...
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01-13-2006, 09:30 PM
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I've not heard of a newer release
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01-13-2006, 10:26 PM
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MS never released a newer disk because soon after this release they came out with SP2 for XP. Don't think they're interested in adding the IE6/Security updates for 98se/ME/2000. SP2 takes care of those for XP versions.
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