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SP2: No Panacea as security software disabled or malfunctions;
Backward compatibility dropped in the name of security

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London, UK - 26 August 2004, 16:15 GMT - Hundreds of small, medium and large corporations, academic institutions as well as government departments that have installed the SP2 update on Windows XP machines either directly or within restricted test environments are reporting problems with their security software suites in the last 48 hours, according to the mi2g Intelligence Unit. This is a serious problem because some firewalls, anti-virus tool kits, intrusion detection systems and anti-spam filters appear to be malfunctioning in a serious way thereby threatening the day to day safety and security regimes of organisations and entities upgrading to SP2.

The malfunctioning, disabled or uninstallable security software includes the following list (not comprehensive) and many previous versions appear to be incompatible with Windows XP/SP2:

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