I've just read the post by Fritz Onion about the news on IIS7 (be quit, it will be available only in 2006 or later 
).
It will be focused about a total integration with the .NET Framework... good news that there will no longer be any difference between specifying IIS security settings and ASP.NET security settings and that all configuration settings in IIS can now be manipulated through the web.config file.
In particular, this last feature gives me thinking... will be totally secure this, or a possible danger?
If this story has something true, it's really one of the biggest flaws on a Microsoft product.
On Warp2Search has appeared a security alert, that in summary said this: your new Windows XP SP2 save your pc agains trojan horses, hackers, viruses and other intruders but it opens the door for everyone if you share files for your local area network. If you have an internal file sharing for your local LAN activated, your File and Printer sharing function is worldwide visible despite the active firewall functions. 
I've no words... I can only say that it's really terrible if it's confirmed. Where is the XP SP2 security? 
However, for my personal choice, during my XP SP2 installation I've chosen not to enable the built-in firewall, but continue to use my ZoneAlarm Firewall... I can monitor not only my incoming traffic, but also the outgoing traffic and this is really important.
I'm waiting to see what happens after this segnalation... 
UPDATE September 18, 2004: news about this bug can be found
HERE.
Yesterday evening I've tryed to download some plugins for my new release of Firefox (1.0SR), in particular the Macromedia Flash Plugin and the updated skins available (updates from my previous Firefox release).
I've never had problems with the automatic update feature of Firefox but yesterday was impossible for me to download any updates.
Someone has found the same problem? Maybe a little incompatibility with XP SP2 (that I've installed on my machine)? Curious...