How secure is your computer?

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
So is that Win XP SP1 without any of the patches since SP1 came out? Or is it XP1 with all the patches it could get without going to SP2? That's a huge difference.

Good question. I would guess the SP1 machine has all the updates up until SP1 installed and the same goes for the SP2 machine. Otherwise, the article doesn't seem to explicitly state so.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: Bassyhead

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
So is that Win XP SP1 without any of the patches since SP1 came out? Or is it XP1 with all the patches it could get without going to SP2? That's a huge difference.

Good question. I would guess the SP1 machine has all the updates up until SP1 installed and the same goes for the SP2 machine. Otherwise, the article doesn't seem to explicitly state so.

That's why I'm wondering. The article makes it sound like unless you have SP2 there's nothing you can do and your computer will become infected within moments of going online. However if I have SP1 and all the updates since then (just not SP2), I'm still a hell of a lot more secure than this article would make it seem.

Gotta love journalism with vague facts.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
A machine unpatched for vulnerabilities is vulnerable? No sh!t. 😛

And people get paid sickeningly large amounts of money to determine this.

- M4H

 

[Scarpozzi]

My computer will NEVER get hacked.....NEVER!!!!!!

 

[imported_Hi]

Originally posted by: Baked
Ban him now.

i second the motion