Within a few hours of home users starting to secure their PCs with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (so they thought), security experts have found ways around it, in other words the Service Pack is not safe.
Amusingly Microsoft have already started to release patches for the Service Pack.
It is a case of closing the gate after the horse has bolted, now I am sure the multi-million (or should that be billion dollar?) corporation that is Microsoft can afford to pay for some significant testing and research, why don't they get one of these security firms on board to test the software for loopholes before releasing it to the general public, rather than releasing it and then in days and weeks that follow have security firms tell the world how the flaws in the software can compromise system security, it comes across as Microsoft don't care.
If there were a significant number of rival operating systems creating competition for Microsoft I'm sure the updates wouldn't come across as being unfinished, but therein the problem lies there is no real competition for now.
A word of advice turn Windows Automatic Updates off, do not install the Service Pack at the moment. Wait until it is a bit more reliable....
It could be a long wait though.
More here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3583860.stm
Amusingly Microsoft have already started to release patches for the Service Pack.
It is a case of closing the gate after the horse has bolted, now I am sure the multi-million (or should that be billion dollar?) corporation that is Microsoft can afford to pay for some significant testing and research, why don't they get one of these security firms on board to test the software for loopholes before releasing it to the general public, rather than releasing it and then in days and weeks that follow have security firms tell the world how the flaws in the software can compromise system security, it comes across as Microsoft don't care.
If there were a significant number of rival operating systems creating competition for Microsoft I'm sure the updates wouldn't come across as being unfinished, but therein the problem lies there is no real competition for now.
A word of advice turn Windows Automatic Updates off, do not install the Service Pack at the moment. Wait until it is a bit more reliable....
It could be a long wait though.
More here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3583860.stm
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