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Originally Posted by bexy
it's frustrating.........but it only seems to happen with our xp puter.......the win 98 one is fine
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Sometimes the older technolocgy will be best. Use the win 98 PC to get to the microsoft support site. From there you will be able to find and download the patches against the win XP vulnerability that allows the MS blast virus. Copy that patch to a clean floppy and onto your XP puter BEFORE you connect that XP computer to internet (even dial up). Once the patch has been run you should then have time to connect, update you antivirus and fully patch the XP system before something else nasty has time to get in.
I've said it before however, chicken and egg time. How does the average user protect his clean / new PC from a virus which will speedily infect the unpatched PC, when they cannot log on to the net to get the AV program updated / windows (out of the box) patched without using the internet?