Re: Problem with Cox cable modem

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 19:09:55 -0800 (PST), E.T. wrote:

A few days ago I did a full clean install of a friends computer and
hooked it up to my dsl line and downloaded some needed things for him
(firefox, drivers, etc.)

Hope you did all the Windows updates.

The moment he hooked up his cable modem....he got this annoying
pop up that keeps mentioning that his computer is going to crash and
needs to download blah blah blah.

Without exact message, I'll guess malware is the cause.

My question is........where could this thing be
coming from? Should I enable his windows firewall?

Oh hell yes, Firewall needs to be on before connecting to the Internet.
.

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