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As the SP2 spreads through the Windows community, you can bet Dell, Gateway, HP and other vendors will get tons of support calls due to the newly innovated problems in the service pack.

They should launch a pre-emptive strike and start installing non-MS browsers as the default brower on all the computers they sell.

They will get far fewer support calls and their customers will have far more secure computers.
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nuturing ActiveX is necessary for MS  gsbtech | 09/03/04
Only 50  Hanover Phist | 09/03/04
Traces or Packages  gsbtech | 09/03/04
Beware of FREE stuff..  Suicida| | 09/03/04
What Windows programmers need to learn...  Michael Kelly | 09/03/04
My message to developers  gsbtech | 09/03/04
Well said...  KOS-MOS | 09/03/04
Agreed  jdd48 | 09/03/04
One thing to remember  rapson | 09/03/04
And actually...  Michael Kelly | 09/03/04
Sheesh  rapson | 09/03/04
Not enough  nomorems | 09/03/04
Re: Not enough  Michael Kelly | 09/03/04
Mono *is* .NET  balsover | 09/03/04
Deja vu all over again  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/03/04
Simple Solution  alterego_z | 09/03/04
That won't matter  Michael Kelly | 09/03/04
that depends on who exactly...  ryusen | 09/03/04
Umm.. true  Michael Kelly | 09/03/04
hmm great idea, but  ryusen | 09/03/04
Yay!!! Alarmed and Confused people don't need ActiveX.  boomslang_z | 09/03/04
Then surfing the web equates to walking a minefield.  Xunil_Sierutuf | 09/03/04
You're too late, did it already for anyone who will listen...  boomslang_z | 09/03/04
100% agree...  Jomo_z | 09/03/04
ActiveX Issues  gas_z | 09/03/04
Trusted Site Management and Internet Explorer...  boomslang_z | 09/03/04
on web pages...  ryusen | 09/03/04
These Are ALL Lights  ParadigmOdyssey | 09/03/04
So there saying ActiveX is like a modern corrupt CEO of a company?  Xunil_Sierutuf | 09/03/04
Seems like the vast majority of issues...  Qbt | 09/03/04
Likewise on three machines and no problems  BXLE | 09/03/04
Yes but,  Cardinal_Bill | 09/03/04
3rd-party applications/plugins, etc  BXLE | 09/03/04
Not to mention  nomorems | 09/03/04
Where Microsoft *could/should* have made it easier!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/03/04
Great Idea No Ax  BXLE | 09/03/04
No Way  nomorems | 09/03/04
Excellent idea  Michael Kelly | 09/03/04
yes but...  ryusen | 09/03/04
You make a good point..  d_jedi | 09/03/04
Yes, but MS strategy is to impede competitors...  Plain Logic | 09/04/04
ms only bundles if they have a competing product  V Sanders | 09/04/04
Is it just a Service Pack Fix ?  rreeder | 09/03/04
Simple Solution......  GregSalts | 09/03/04
multiple points:  ryusen | 09/03/04
ActiveX can go away, for all I care  CobraA1 | 09/03/04
active-X and inactive-B(rain)  michael-t | 09/03/04
why mess with IT  pj-xmesh | 09/04/04
active X is dead  V Sanders | 09/04/04
I prefer .net Framework over ActiveX...  Grayson_Peddie | 09/05/04
They're just plugins  CobraA1 | 09/05/04
That are being installed as ActiveX modules...  boomslang_z | 09/05/04
And that's not the worst of it.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/05/04
"Full" Windows programs?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/05/04
re: "Full" Windows programs?  CobraA1 | 09/06/04
You don't get it.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/05/04
what??  rbochan | 09/06/04
Which "security experts"?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/06/04
you paid them once, pay them again  educateme@... | 09/06/04
GOOD! ActiveX NEEDS to go away  BitTwiddler | 09/07/04
WOOT... Finally some control of poorly written and mailicious code  p_korman | 09/07/04
I Installed SP2 Over The Weekend  itanalyst | 09/07/04
Has anyone thought of security using VMware or something like it?  admin12345@... | 09/07/04

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