[pchelpers] any XP users still without SP2 ?!

http://www.benedelman.org/news/111804-1.html
How much junk can get installed on a user's PC by merely visiting 
a single site? I set out to see for myself -- by visiting a 
single web page taking advantage of a security hole (in an 
ordinary fresh copy of Windows XP), and by recording what 
programs that site caused to be installed on my PC. In the course 
of my testing, my test PC was brought to a virtual stand-still -- 
with at least 16 distinct programs installed. I was not shown 
licenses or other installation prompts for any of these programs, 
and I certainly didn't consent to their installation on my PC

Note that the latest version of Internet Explorer, as patched by 
Windows XP Service Pack 2, is not vulnerable to the installations 
shown in my video and discussed above.
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