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From: "Mike Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 17:25
Is this utility any good? Is it safe to use?
<http://www.theorica.net/safexp.htm>
I've never used this app so I can't comment one way or the other, I'm just a
messenger! ;D
Here's a review I found, although it was almost 2 years old.:
The review was taken from:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/review/1071298252/1/view
"Poorly designed, and I'll tell you why:
(1) Safe XP creates any missing registry values, and unless you explicitly
set every option shown on the main window, it sets those values to the
setting that leaves then enabled.
For example, I had my "Help and Support" service set to Manual, because that
is the best setting, as far as I'm concerned. I didn't enable the option in
Safe XP to disable that service, so Safe XP set it to Automatic!
This poor design can also have the exact *opposite* effect as what is
intended--it can leave you *less* secure. Suppose you don't have a
particular registry value, but upon seeing the lack of that value, Windows
uses a secure default. However, Safe XP comes along, and creates the
registry value, and sets it to the opposite of the default. Unless you know
that Safe XP is too stupid to know about the concept of "no setting
exists--using defaults", you'd be screwed.
(2) It makes many changes to the registry which are not reflected in the
main window. I guess they think everyone is too stupid to comprehend the
implications, and that they just know better. Well, their poor application
design left me with a "Your Computer" security zone, on top of the "My
Computer" zone I already had there.
In short, Safe XP might be helpful to novices, or people who just can't be
bothered doing these things carefully by hand. But for those of us who have
already reviewed many points of security, it's a poorly-designed total
kludge that will mess everything up. "
Regards,
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Rick Cogan from Melbourne, FL
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