"GodalmingYellow" wrote:"SteMerritt" wrote:"GodalmingYellow" wrote:
I don't think it is just a few people mouthing off on the internet.
On what are you basing that opinion? You google Firefox not connecting you get over 1 Million hits...
As I said, from personal experience at our site with 80|| XP machines, we haven't had a single issue of this. Not that I am saying that there isn't an issue, but I am saying that it isn't 'huge'
7.2m hits on Google just for this specific problem, versus 80 machines all run in the same way at the same location by one person.
Clearly you're not experiencing the problem, and I wish I knew what you were doing differently. Many others clearly are having problems though, and to extrapolate your experience to make a case that there isn't a huge problem, when a specific Google search shows 7.2m others with the same problem, is stretching it a bit.
Clearly we're not going to reach the same conclusion on this.
Nah probably not! I suppose I just don't believe much of what I read on the internet, and add much more weight to my own observations (especially on something like browser choices, where there is a lot of vocal 'fanboy' rants all over the place)
What am I doing differently? Don't know, but our installation is a mix of Dell servers, desktops and laptops, all XP, and we have WSUS pushing all the MS updates (after verification) to the clients. We don't allow any browser other than IE, due to custom online portals written specifically for the browser (well except IT of course, we can install any we want, I also have FireFox 3). Possible malware problem causing the issue? I would suggest this is far more likely than any particular MS patch. I Don't know, and probably won't have any idea until I see a machine with the problem first-hand, which hopefully won't happen.