Windows XP SP2: Is It Safe?
Date Posted: March 01, 2005 10:17 AM
Author: Mel Beckman
According to a Denver Post story today, network security developer StillSecure recently conducted a "honeypot" test, in which it put out-of-the-box computers running Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows XP SP1 and SP2 on unprotected Internet connections to see if they could withstand attack. The short results: over the course of seven days, only Windows XP SP1 succumbed (and it fell in 18 minutes). But the excercise glosses over an important issue with Windows SP2.

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