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Service Pack 2 For Vista is out — Working good on the Cricket Broadband A600

Paul

Microsoft has sent out Service pack 2 for Vista, and so I installed it on my machine to see what happens with the [intlink id=”3479″ type=”post”]Cricket Modem[/intlink].  The Files Microsoft are letting people download are:

All of these are KB948465 and will be released on June 30, 2009 via Automatic updates.   I also tested it out and I have a 32 bit system.   I am unsure as to the other systems if the Cricket Broadband works or not on the [intlink id=”1936″ type=”post”]UM100 Modem.[/intlink]  I have the [intlink id=”3059″ type=”post”]A600 Cricket Broadband modem[/intlink] and it installed without a hitch.

According to Ars technica this Service Pack has over 800 hot fixes and have fixed several things that Microsoft did wrong with Service Pack 1.  If you have the Beta version you will have to unistall it before you install this service pack.  I would love to hear of any problems with Cricket Broadband from others in the forums.   If you have problems let me know and I’ll  do my best to help you out.

If you want to find out some of the fixes Microsoft sent out in this service pack you can see some of the updates on the Ars Technica article about what they fixed or changed.   That list isn’t a complete list but it highlights some of them.  If you haven’t installed [intlink id=”843″ type=”post”]Service Pack 1[/intlink], you will need to install that before you can install Service pack 2.

Microsoft Updates the Autorun Patch KB967715

Paul

The updates offered in this article correctly disable the Autorun features. These features were not correctly disabled if you followed previously published guidance. The updates that are offered in this article have been distributed to the following systems through the Windows Update and Automatic update distribution channels:

* Microsoft Windows 2000
* Windows XP Service Pack 2
* Windows XP Service Pack 3
* Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
* Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

[ad#ad2-right]This will help with the Conflicker Worm, also known the new variant Conflicker B++. Microsoft released this patch to better help the Administrators deal with the problem at hand. That the Conflicker worm exploits the autorun feature in most system. The Administrators need to disable the Autorun feature the right way, or it will not prevent infections.

Microsoft releases the necessary registry keys to edit and how want updates are needed to make this work. This will make it much harder for any program to exploit the Autorun feature in Windows.

This information is provided to help the Admins prevent from getting infected and should not be done by anyone who isn’t comfortable with editing the registry. If you’re not sure how to do it, please take it to someone who can do it. You could potentially make the system unstable messing with registry.