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 article entirely forgot to notice (either that or the auther never knew), that WinXP SP2 has stackguards, which stops the majority of buffer overflows.. which is what 99% of the other windows exploits have been based on.. Also fails to notice that automatic updating is enabled by default, which has a massive effect on security.
Anyway, I feel that most of the security problems in windows these days are IE based and internal security problems anyway (that fortunately hackers have failed to notice).
So I actually consider this article to be done by a less professional point of view, but otherall, I thought was a good try