{"id":3363,"date":"2005-02-24T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2005\/02\/24\/security-improved-then-destroyed\/"},"modified":"2005-02-24T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T08:37:00","slug":"security-improved-then-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/security-improved-then-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Improved&#8230;then Destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Howard &#8211; our Sr. Security Program Manager here at Microsoft &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/michael_Howard\/archive\/2005\/02\/23\/379421.aspx\">blogs<\/a> about how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/sp2\/features.mspx\">improved security features<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/sp2\/default.mspx\">XP SP2<\/a> were effectively destroyed in an article in PC Magazine, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1759,1768883,00.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\">Making Windows XP Start Faster<\/a>&#8220;, by turning off the Automatic Updates and Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) services.<\/p>\n<p>Great <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/research\/detail.aspx?id=3\">improvements<\/a> have &#8211; and are still &#8211; being made to both the development process, and code and binary quality, through better code reviews, static analysis tools&nbsp;&#8211; many of which are developed in <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft Research<\/a> &#8211; and more. But it&#8217;s information like this that can much more quickly destroy all that.<\/p>\n<p>External firewalls are great to have, but many people are connected directly to the Internet either via modem or broadband (which is more likely to be attacked). People that don&#8217;t know what a firewall is might not know that they need it, especially in those cases.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m running both an external firewall on my router as well as the firewall in XP, which I turned on even before SP2 turned it on by default. Automatic updates also make sure that your computer is kept secure.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Howard &#8211; our Sr. Security Program Manager here at Microsoft &#8211; blogs about how the improved security features in XP SP2 were effectively destroyed in an article in PC Magazine, &#8220;Making Windows XP Start Faster&#8220;, by turning off the Automatic Updates and Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) services. Great improvements have &#8211; and are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-security"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Michael Howard &#8211; our Sr. Security Program Manager here at Microsoft &#8211; blogs about how the improved security features in XP SP2 were effectively destroyed in an article in PC Magazine, &#8220;Making Windows XP Start Faster&#8220;, by turning off the Automatic Updates and Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) services. Great improvements have &#8211; and are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}