BetaNews is reporting that Microsoft will release a new Service Pack on September 24 including the various security patches. Because Service Packs are also available as CD distributions (for a shipping charge), this may help customers without high-speed Internet connections obtain all the patches (over 30 Megabytes) needed for their system. Unfortunately, many brand-new PC's include old versions of the Windows Operating system and are immediately infected when connected to the Internet before they can download all the patches. This would be a welcome change from Microsoft's previous public statments that the Windows Update Service is the only way for retail consumers to obtain the patches. http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1063425644