# Why did I need to download Service pack for Vista?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-i-need-to-download-service-pack-for-vista/511473>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 25, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-i-need-to-download-service-pack-for-vista/511473 "2009-09-25T03:16:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-i-need-to-download-service-pack-for-vista/511473/21 "2009-09-29T15:27:39Z")

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> Mac commercials like this one make it sound like Macs don’t have the problems of viruses or other security concerns that PCs suffer from.

There’s [a malware scanner in Snow Leopard now](http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4104). Theyre not too big on publicizing this.

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**Author:** ![Kamrusepas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@Kamrusepas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamrusepas)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-i-need-to-download-service-pack-for-vista/511473/22 "2009-09-30T07:59:36Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> To my immense chagrin I stupidly gave Windows permission this morning to install it. My reward was to have all sounds on my machine become inaudible, despite my Device Manager cheerfully insisting that all was hunky dory with the sound card. Spent 3 hours this afternoon installing several sound card drivers, none of which remedied the problem.

So were you able to fix this eventually? (I’m having computer sound problems too and am willing to try just about anything :D)

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