Thanks for that, In March Microsoft produced a security update cd with all the updates for windoze xp,me,98se,98 oses upto feb -free if you order off there web site. We also preinstall zone alarm & avg or norton internet security before connecting to the internet. Downloading the updates to nortons on a secure machine and update the new machine. I have now got a dynalink adsl modem with firewall pretty well locked down to ensure that the machine gets upto date safely. looking forward to septs PC world with xp sp2 on it and then i will update all my windoze machines now i have updated nero.
Maurice -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Corey Murtagh Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2004 3:11 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] Ad-Aware Like Magic wrote: > If you take a new PC with windoze xp straight out of the box and turn on > it's firewall then start downloading the windoze updates, since it was > shipped, you will have a virus within 20 minutes which is shorter than the > updates take to download on a modem. There are two solutions... 1) Download SP1 and other updates and drop them on a CD-RW for when you have to reinstall next 2) Use a network connection and NAT (ICS will do) to connect a fresh install to Windows Update I use option 2 when I'm setting up computers for others. It doesn't happen all that often, but it means no external access to the machine while it does updates. Since my main machine is reasonably secure, no problems. -- Corey Murtagh The Electric Monk "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!" _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
