Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 19:56 UTC, submitted by Jon Cooper
"We evaluated the security features of Windows XP SP2 on a test machine, following a clean install of XP Pro with no configuration changes and no third-party software or drivers installed. We installed XP with the NTFS file system, choosing all of the factory defaults, then patched it with each recommended security update including SP-1 (required), before installing SP2." Read the rest at TheRegister.
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This was the most biased article I have ever read in my life. If it was about Linux it would have told the benefits of having a service turned 'on'. Instead he goes on and on about network services. Also this was on Windows XP Pro not Home edition, the author could find fault with God.
Anyone who takes the 'Register' as serious needs
to be buying swam_pland in Florida.
There is NO perfect operating system, code, or any other application that is full proof. If any thinks so they are not living in reality.
But all in all, they were out to bash MS and it software, stating in the end it is too dangerous to use. Come on get serious, I think anyone reading the 'Register' needs a mental evaluation (if read on a daily basis).
A real Tech site needs to evalute this SP2 not
some Anti-MS site...