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Hello all,
I'm new here so perhaps this has already been answered.

I have Norton Internet Security 2005 installed and my Operating System is Windows XP. I have not installed Microsoft Service Pack 2 yet. While reading about features included in SP2 it seems to me that NIS-2005 includes similar features and more. Why would I need to install SP2?

Am I missing something important here? Thanks for any feedback. Happy New Year

Clark

If you have a good hardware firewall, as such from your modem, and you
are running a good virus scanner (required anyways), you do not have to
worry about SP2. SP2 does offer some enhancements for XP, but they are
not very important. Most of SP2 is for security issues.

It is important however, to keep up with the security updates for IE
and OE. This also applies to any of the multi media programs that
require security enhancements.


Jerry G.
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Thanks for your advice.

Clark

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> If you have a good hardware firewall, as such from your modem, and you
> are running a good virus scanner (required anyways), you do not have to
> worry about SP2. SP2 does offer some enhancements for XP, but they are
> not very important. Most of SP2 is for security issues.
>
> It is important however, to keep up with the security updates for IE
> and OE. This also applies to any of the multi media programs that
> require security enhancements.
>
>
> Jerry G.
> ======
>

Clark Martin wrote:
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> Clark
>
> <> wrote in message
> news: oups.com...
>
>>If you have a good hardware firewall, as such from your modem, and you
>>are running a good virus scanner (required anyways), you do not have to
>>worry about SP2. SP2 does offer some enhancements for XP, but they are
>>not very important. Most of SP2 is for security issues.
>>
>>It is important however, to keep up with the security updates for IE
>>and OE. This also applies to any of the multi media programs that
>>require security enhancements.
>>
>>
>>Jerry G.
>>======
>>
>
>
>
Well there are a couple of security fixes in sp2. One that comes to
mind is the graphic decompression fix. Norton will identify some of the
graphic file compromises however not all. I recommend SP2. CERT
recommends dumping IE and use anything else. Don't try to uninstall IE
just set the other browser of choice as default browser. I use Mozilla
Firefox,there are others, but it works very well for me, and I don't
have near the issue(no issue)with spyware and web stuff touching my
registry.

I do understand there are requirements for IE at times, but for general
use I recommend anything that is not so cozy with the OS.

I recommend dumping OE and using any client that breaks the capability
of running activeX. Mozilla Thunderbird is again my choice here as it
can be set to disallow any script execution in e-mail.
Winged

Your mileage may vary, things are closer than they appear.