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P. Jayant
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I have not been able to locate any list of the Internet security features
included in SP3 as against the previous versions of XP: SP1 and SP2. I
discovered a new feature in O E 8 after installing SP3. There is a Spam
Folder and it appears as if any message from a party who is not in my
Address Book is sent to the Spam Folder. I can look at the Sender’s name and
the subject and if I need to keep it, I can Move it to the Inbox Folder by
right clicking on the subject and selecting Move from the options; but the
Spam tag given to it remains there as a prefix to the Subject.
The second security measure I came across yesterday, involved quite a bit of
struggle. I receive various bills like the one from the Electricity Utility
Company by e-mail and pay it through Internet Banking Facility. I have
accounts in two banks and I have been paying the electricity bill for quite
a few years from one of these two banks when my system was under SP1 and
later under SP2. This bank asked me only to log in and confirm twice that I
approved paying the amount specified in the bill. But after the recent
installation of SP3 on my computer, XP refused yesterday to clear the
payment because of insufficient Merchant Data, giving Data Execution
Prevention requirement as the reason.
Since I did not know if I could resolve the problem, I decided to pay the
bill from the account in the second bank. This bank asks first for Log-in
username and password. Then it asks for the Username and Password for paying
by Internet transaction. And when that too is cleared, it displays three or
four English alphabets on the payment screen, one alphabet per box with
space for entering two digits in a box below. On the reverse of my ATM Card
from this bank are the two digits corresponding to the English alphabets.
When I read that table behind the ATM card and enter the two digits in each
box correctly, the payment is instantly made. Thus there are much stricter
security measures in the system of the second Bank: measures which
apparently fulfill the Data Execution Prevention requirement of XP3.
Could any knowledgeable user of XP3 indicate if XP3 really has introduced
this new feature for Internet transaction security? Or could there be any
other reason for the blockade?
P. Jayant
included in SP3 as against the previous versions of XP: SP1 and SP2. I
discovered a new feature in O E 8 after installing SP3. There is a Spam
Folder and it appears as if any message from a party who is not in my
Address Book is sent to the Spam Folder. I can look at the Sender’s name and
the subject and if I need to keep it, I can Move it to the Inbox Folder by
right clicking on the subject and selecting Move from the options; but the
Spam tag given to it remains there as a prefix to the Subject.
The second security measure I came across yesterday, involved quite a bit of
struggle. I receive various bills like the one from the Electricity Utility
Company by e-mail and pay it through Internet Banking Facility. I have
accounts in two banks and I have been paying the electricity bill for quite
a few years from one of these two banks when my system was under SP1 and
later under SP2. This bank asked me only to log in and confirm twice that I
approved paying the amount specified in the bill. But after the recent
installation of SP3 on my computer, XP refused yesterday to clear the
payment because of insufficient Merchant Data, giving Data Execution
Prevention requirement as the reason.
Since I did not know if I could resolve the problem, I decided to pay the
bill from the account in the second bank. This bank asks first for Log-in
username and password. Then it asks for the Username and Password for paying
by Internet transaction. And when that too is cleared, it displays three or
four English alphabets on the payment screen, one alphabet per box with
space for entering two digits in a box below. On the reverse of my ATM Card
from this bank are the two digits corresponding to the English alphabets.
When I read that table behind the ATM card and enter the two digits in each
box correctly, the payment is instantly made. Thus there are much stricter
security measures in the system of the second Bank: measures which
apparently fulfill the Data Execution Prevention requirement of XP3.
Could any knowledgeable user of XP3 indicate if XP3 really has introduced
this new feature for Internet transaction security? Or could there be any
other reason for the blockade?
P. Jayant
