is this update required or optional: KB897663

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Update for Windows XP (KB897663)
Install this update to ensure that a firewall exception created via the
registry is listed in the Windows Firewall interface the same as if the
exception was created in the interface itself. After you install this update,
you may have to restart your
computer.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=478FD24B-B2C4-4207-B1B9-1C988698C888&displaylang=en

Is this update required to be installed or optional?

 

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T1J wrote:

> Update for Windows XP (KB897663)
> Install this update to ensure that a firewall exception created via the
> registry is listed in the Windows Firewall interface the same as if the
> exception was created in the interface itself. After you install this update,
> you may have to restart your
> computer.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=478FD24B-B2C4-4207-B1B9-1C988698C888&displaylang=en
>
> Is this update required to be installed or optional?
Hi,

It's an optional update.

More about the issue here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897663

and here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/897663.mspx



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Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
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Is this update available on Window Update? or i have to manually download it
and install it

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> T1J wrote:
>
> > Update for Windows XP (KB897663)
> > Install this update to ensure that a firewall exception created via the
> > registry is listed in the Windows Firewall interface the same as if the
> > exception was created in the interface itself. After you install this update,
> > you may have to restart your
> > computer.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=478FD24B-B2C4-4207-B1B9-1C988698C888&displaylang=en
> >
> > Is this update required to be installed or optional?
> Hi,
>
> It's an optional update.
>
> More about the issue here:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897663
>
> and here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/897663.mspx
>
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
>