Microsoft: SP2 makes Windows 15 times safer
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Computers running Windows XP Service Pack 2 are 15 times less likely than those running XP or XP SP1 to be infected by some of the most dangerous forms of malware, according to a Microsoft security guru.
He added that spyware could be responsible for up to one-third of all Windows crashes, citing data culled by the Windows error reporting tool, which sends data back to Microsoft when an application crashes.
"The primary problem that users have with spyware is that their systems crash or are really slow or don't behave in the way they expect them to," Garms said.