It has a built-in  firewall and other alleged improvements. If you have a third party firewall such as Zonealarm (free), an anti-virus program that is updated and running, and spybot 1.3, spysweeper, or some other malware hunter program, you will be OK until the bugs and kinks are worked out in SP2.  At some point a few months from now, IMHO, it will be good to do this update.  You can download it (266 Mb) or order a free CD from MS. See if Dell will provide you with a free CD. I installed it on 3 computers and am not smitten with it.  I think that like everything else from MS, it is a work in progress.

>  Hello; I was recently notified by Dell I should update windows XP home edition with SP2- it sounds complicated and should I do it> I understand it protects me from invasion by sounds confusing to me. Thanks Donna
>  Donna M. White
>  603-267-8395
>  www.edenwhild.com
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