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Everyone should run Ad Aware and SpyBot to remove all the cruddy spyware
coming in off the net. My daughter installed a screen saver and there was so much attached spyware her computer could barely function "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Chuck Tribolet wrote: The XP firewall won't stop a rouge program (or spyware, or virus) from phoning home. It only stop stuff coming from outside. "Harry Krause" wrote in message news:1102269099.4qsvEFS3LJXCi87mfPUrSA@teranews... I fixed up my crashed server and also decided it was time to clean up my main desktop machine, so... I bit the bullet and did a clean install of WinXP Professional. It went smoothly, with no error messages, and I've reinstalled the application software I actually use. I suppose this is only a sideways step from Win2k, which I had been using on this machine. There are a couple of nice new features on XP that weren't offered on Win2k, though. But not enough to induce anyone to buy XP Pro. WinXP incluides a basic firewall which seems robust enough to resist probes from the usual test sites. thanks for the tip, Chuck. I just turned off the XP firewall and reinstalled the one I usually use. Of course, the whole mess is now sitting behind my server and hardware firewall... |
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