Microsoft to fully enable Windows XP firewall before shippin
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Microsoft said yesterday that it planned to change the way it distributes its flagship Windows XP operating system software, in response to a malicious software "worm" that has spread over the Internet in recent days attacking tens of thousands of personal computers by exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows.
Dissemination of the worm, a viruslike program, slowed yesterday as network administrators and individual computer users around the world took steps to protect their machines, even as Microsoft's critics stepped up their complaints that the company's industry-dominant software puts its customers at risk of such outbreaks.