Re: Intel Macs - Official dual boot for XP

"RichardK" <atari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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AstraVanMan wrote:
My wife wouldn't have the first clue as to how to update Windows,

<snip>

Start menu
Windows update
Automatic from there

Not exactly rocket science...


Yup, and once it's set up, like you say, automatic - it pops up saying
"updates downloaded, click here to install", or if you choose, it just
gets on with it and lets you know when it's done.

Ever seen the test where (someone - I forget who) stuck a brand new, out
of the box XP system onto broadband and let it rip?

it took, IIRC, 15-20 minutes to download all the updates.

Which was about 5 times as long as it took for the system to be infected
;)


Hmm.

Since I was rebuilding this notebook anyway I gave this a whirl. Left it
connected for thirty minutes. Installed Spybot... nothing.

Surfed as many dodgy websites as I could for another thirty minutes, cleared
out the gubbins using Spybot, then put the firewall on, blah blah blah.

Worst thing that's ever infected this machine is iTunes.

--
The DervMan
www.dervman.com


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