Service pak 2

[SCVirus]

As long as you don't use many connections, don't mind having a crappy firewall (to turn off because its useless all new viruses/trojans/worms automaticly disable it or workaround it anyway) a few broken programs most are fixed by now, oh and don't forget if you get infected by a high connection attempt per second propogating worm (almost any of them) your computer will cease to be able to use the internet normally (because windows throttles the connections from the worm so ligitimate connections won't get through in a very long time) this will prevent updating of virus definitions to remove the worm, as well as stopping you from getting updates to stop the worm from instantly infecting you again. You think windows sp2 is secure, thats rediculas, the firewall can be turned off in the virus/trojan/worm you were infected with before it beforms its connections (and all new ones do realizing most people don't turn it off) or simply use internet explorers exsisting connections to bypass the firewall. The new exploits are commonly being used with shellcode that bypasses the firewall to either open a port or download a file.
Anyway i was saying if you don't mind all ^that then by all means use sp2, its got no new security that is anything more then superficial, and if you are infected it prevents you from fixing it. (oh by the way make sure your all updated (with post sp1 sec updates) or else you could be infected by looking a a .jpg new buffer overflow in windows gdi handling god microsoft is stupid now pictures arn't even safe.)

If you install it right now you probably won't notice a difference except the superficial security features. But your screwed when the next worm hits.