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Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Help Re: Things you should know before installing SP2 for Windows XP

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Feb 9th, 2005
Originally Posted by aussielad
SP2 is a complete waste of time. Why does everyone hang off MS for their patches, only to be forced to install more patches to patch what SHOULD have been done in SP2. Get yourself zonealarm security suite(which includes a virus scanner) and SP2 is redundant.
SP2 includes numerous improvements over SP1, the security features added to Internet Explorer are in no way redundant. They eliminate the risk of auto installing spyware for one. The XP Firewall is also very much improved in SP2 but Zonealarm is still a good recommendation.
 
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