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After reading more propaganda about more bugs found in XPSP2, I wonder where were all of these people when XPSP2 was being debugged.  I just think it's strange that after the release date, then all of these issues are being broadcasted.  And they call themselves "Security Experts"?  While I wouldn't want to be in the dark about flaws in a O/S that I depend on, I also believe that it's not fair that groups always pick on Microsoft.

I will give PC Magazine some credit.  Although they are disclosing issues with SP2, they are also showing Microsoft responses to the issues.  (Most of these vulnerabilities require the user to do something stupid like download a EXE and be running as Administrator.)  They also gave a positive recommendation about XPSP2:

Do we think that end users should upgrade? Yes, Windows XP Service Pack 2 is a must do, especially for end users. However, we would recommend users not take the WSC [Windows Security Center] as gospel, If you use an antivirus, or 3rd party firewall, look at their status panels as a sanity check. Keep your Antivirus, windows, firewall updates current, and most of all, be very careful of what you run on your system.

I'm banking on XPSP2. It's better than what we had.