Thread: took my fresh pc 5 mins to catch a virus/trojan
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Old 09-05-2004, 03:54 PM  
MrJackMeHoff
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Originally posted by rowan
When I first 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!
Considering XP comes with a firewall built in this shouldnt be a problem
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