Update on MS's big PC patch

Families know that nothing's perfect in the world of PC security - meaning, the intrepid young Web surfers in our homes can download anything. Meanwhile, intrepid hackers of the malicious sort are constantly finding ways to hack into Microsoft software (because it has the lionshare of computer users). So it was inevitable that Microsoft's milestone security patch, SP2 (for "Service Pack 2"), would have flaws found in it about as soon as it was released. Here are the latest findings from a couple of sources: CNET reports that PC security researchers, having found flaws that hackers can exploit, have already notified Microsoft about them, and they expect to find more. Today's headline on Wall Street Journal techie Walt Mossberg's column has it that SP2 "has value but falls short." That's the upshot, it seems, no matter how many flaws are found: better to have it on your PC than not.