Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
by bengrunfeld on Friday August 23, 2013 @05:00PM
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hehehehe... sorry, my terminology is a bit rusty. For memory, it was service pack 3 (SP3) that fixed most of the security holes that were destroying networks running XP.
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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
by tanzam75 on Saturday August 24, 2013 @02:46AM
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No, SP2 was the big security patch for XP. Most notably, the firewall was on by default. This blocked a whole class of remote-control attacks, because you weren't exposing every single service just by connecting a network cable.
SP3 came four years later, in 2008.