On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> It’s definitely more robust from a security standpoint. How many attacks >>> do you see against privileged services do you see know? The type that allow >>> NIMDA and Blaster etc. to spread? >> >> But we don't see them for XP much, either. > > Not since SP3, anyway...
Yah. Even SP2 helped a lot. Prolly the single biggest improvement in Microsoft security -- other than the original introduction of NT -- was the improved firewall, defaulted to enabled, in XP SP2. Even *I* didn't complain about that change. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
