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When I installed XP for the first time a few months ago it didn't occur to me that the CD wouldn't be up to date... a few minutes after I plugged in the ethernet I saw the dreaded "your computer will reboot in 90 seconds" dialog.
I wiped the lot, put in a temporary restrictive firewall on my gateway (only outbound HTTP connections allowed), reinstalled and patched everything from windowsupdate.com
I don't know what people without firewalls are supposed to do. They can't easily download the patch if they're not net connected, but as soon as they connect they get infected!
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