Microsoft has announced it is to patch a patch — it’s fixed a hole in XP Service Pack 2 that prevented VPNs from working properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Microsoft has published the patch through its Web site. It fixes a problem that installing XP SP2 creates with VPNs and can be downloaded here.<\/p>\n
Once installed, XP SP2 can cause users to see a ‘cannot establish a connection’ message if a the machine tries to connect to IP addresses in the loopback address range, according to Microsoft’s Web site.<\/p>\n
However, Redmond won’t be expecting too many hits on the patch yet. XP SP2 has only reached a fifth of the people Microsoft had hoped, missing its target by 80 million. The patch is the second Microsoft has been prompted to offer following the emergence of XP SP2.<\/p>\n
Microsoft’s CRM product also needed a fix to become compatible with the service pack.<\/p>\n
The VPN fix is one of the downloads that features in a pilot programme to test if users’ licences are genuine.<\/p>\n
To download the fix, users are required to have their licences validated through Microsoft’s website.<\/p>\n
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