Spent 20 minutes downloading the 266Meg Service Pack from
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/winxpsp2.
mspx only to have it fail during extraction the first time with a
corrupted cab file (file copied to designated disk location as only
107Meg - also read the Windows Firewall INF document while waiting on
the download.) Spent a second 20 minutes downloading the 266Meg Service
Pack from the same location without touching the computer to ensure it
wasn't something I did to corrupt the download.
Spent 37 minutes to run the Service Pack installation on a Pentium 4
MicronPC ClientPro which has NSA recommended security settings
throughout the system based on Department of Defense Security Technical
Implementation Guide (STIG) recommendations. Reboot of course required,
which used up another 7.5 minutes with all the updating of settings (to
be fair the STIG settings had already slowed down the reboot process
from a standard XP installation.)
The new "Security Center" was the first item shown on the screen -
showed at least one firewall working on the system (I already had
Symantec Client Firewall installed), showed Windows Update as enabled
and showed an Anti-Virus software as being on the system, but couldn't
obtain the state of the software (again I had Symantec Anti-Virus
Corporate Edition loaded and enabled). My first action was to disable
the Windows Firewall as it doesn't provide the level of protection that
I already had in place (IMO), changed the Anti-Virus check to "Not
Monitored" since it obviously couldn't tell me anything I didn't already
know and left the automatic update setting as they had been (pointed to
a remote SUS server at a location other than Microsoft.)
Tested installed software (MS Office 2003, MS Reader, all MS software
installed worked without problem) did not experience any problems with -
Active Ports, Advanced IP Scanner, Blackberry Desktop Redirector, Power
DVD, Ergolight Controls, Form Flow Filler, Network View, Rapid Eye Admin
and Monitoring, SSH Secure Shell and SSH Secure FTP, Swiff Player, Spy
Sweeper, SpyBot and WinZip 9.0 - seems everything I normally run works
without apparent problems at least thus far.
Other than the time taken due to a second download requirement the
installation of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP on my system everything
appears to be worth the effort. Good luck.
-= rahvin =-
Ray Briggs, CISSP
Information Assurance Manager, CDO22
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