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Well I think Microsoft folks did a pretty good job with the Service Pack but I am disappointed by Internet Explorer security.

Microsoft claims that the new pack block everything (or eventually ask you). Wrong, wrong and wrong :-(

After successfully installed the pack, activate all the required new securities, and blocking all the popups, I believed like many, thanks god, I can now work without too much hassle.

Wrong. A nasty spyware working as an exploit code, not only found a way in my computer, installed a nasty toolbar, created dozens of shortcut on my desktop, but the best installed itself as allowed sites in the popup blocker !!

And SP2 didn't moved at all, not a single alert, nada.

Thanks to some registry hacks, I found a way to at least dialled the toolbar, but I know the infamous code is still dormant somewhere, ready to attack again.

Crap.