On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Russell McMahon wrote:

>> Everyone bashes Microsoft for
>> this, but yet when they take the first baby-steps towards fixing the
>> problem (which is largely what SP2 was) they get accused of "breaking"
>> things.
>
> There's no doubt that they broke the PC I was working on. It may be that they 
> did it to make thjings better, but it was definitely broken when they had 
> finished, and is stayed broken when SP2 was removed. Sp2 interacted with the 
> existing Zone Alarm installation and Norton (expired updates) installation 
> and the end result was it would web connect but not use IE6 or OE. You could 
> still ping sites on the net.
>
> I don't mind Microsoft making things better, and I accept that a certain 
> amount of damage is inevitable, but I would have hoped that such major 
> packages as Zone alarm and Norton whatever would be traeted properly by SP2.

You mean, such major *competing* packages ? So far I have read lots of 
reports on SP2 breaking ZA and Norton av. Could someone confirm that he 
has installed SP2 and did no have to remove ZA and/or Norton av ?

Peter
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