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