Martin at IANAG sends word that he's finished his look at XP SP2 RC2. His article covers the in's & out's of what many of you will be upgrading to here within the next few months.

"The most talked about part of this service pack is of course the Security center and the much improved firewall. Anytime a new program tries to access the internet an alert message will pop up and ask you if you'd like to prevent this program from accessing the internet. Something I noticed is it doesn't stop the program at all! Behind this alert message my entire contact list was loaded in Trillian! This was before I gave it a selection to allow this program to run."