My brother who is a Captain in the Church Army has made a flying visit from Cornwall this weekend. He brought his laptop with him and I was appalled with the state of his PC. a Dell laptop he has had for 12 months. It was supplied to him by the Church Army and to be honest he is not very well clued up on IT. It has Win 2000 Pro installed. It came with MaCafee AV, but it has never had any update facility activated. It was missing 37 MS critical updates. He accessed his e-mails and "wondered why" even though he downloaded 10 messages, it was telling him that he had 985 messages.
Due to the fact that we where at our mums house I didn't want to download all the stuff he needs to sort out his PC via her phoneline. It has no firewall or adaware protection either. I have burned copies of several utilities such as Adaware, Z Alarm, Spybot, Spywareblaster etc onto a CD for him.
However I have a couple of questions. I am not familiar with Win2000 Pro, how do you enable auto update for the Microsoft critical updates.
Also is there a quick and easy way to purge his mailbox of the 985 messages, I know how to prevent messages being saved and have activated this for him.