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[dakegra]

am I being stupid?

I'm running this fresh install of XP with nowt more than Windows built-in firewall to protect me.

I can't get at the wrrk anti-virus stuff until tomorrow...

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[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

I certainly wouldn't fancy doing what you're doing. I'm sure it's better than nothing, but the words "Microsoft" and "security" don't go together at all.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

yeah, usually I'd bung zone alarm on there, but they have some new system were you download a small installer and it pulls the rest off the web, so you're sort of left hanging...

and I could stick a free AV kit on here

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yikes...

Scary!

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

scary in an ZOMG! NOE! kind of way, or in a strokey-chin ah, it'll be ok kind of way?

I could strip it back and re-install it all...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not your laptop...

And you'll get the AV stuff in place tomorrow...

So halfway between the two!

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

I read a magazine article recently where someone experimented by using a completely unprotected (i.e. no firewall, no AV, no nothing) Win XP machine for a week, and the nasties it picked up were unbelievable. It had viruses, malware, the lot.