Thursday, May 26, 2005

SP2 makes Windows safer

<A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5718630.html?tag=zdnn.alert">Computers running Windows XP Service Pack 2</A> are 15 times less likely than those running XP or XP SP1 to be infected by some of the most dangerous forms of malware, according to a Microsoft security guru. Jason Garms, who heads the company's anti-malware product team, said this improvement had been revealed by an internal analysis of SP2's performance. SP2--a major security update released in August--was designed to turn on auto-update by default and consolidate security controls into a "security center".

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