From: "Doug Kanter" <ancientangler@hotmail.com>


|
| You're very lucky, then. Last spring, I did a reformat/reinstall (XP Pro)
| for a friend. The install finished. I walked away for lunch. Came back
| later, started IE, and got popup windows all over the place. I'll avoid the
| middle of the story, but I found the box was infected with some sort of
| crap, and I hadn't visited ANY web sites yet. No installed software other
| than XP.
|

But you didn't install WinXP SP2 or use a FireWall and an internet worm must have installed
itself throuough a vulnerability. Maybe you enabled File and Print Shareing and failed to
properly secure the platform.

Now if you did this behind a Cable/DSL, NAT, Router then its simplistic FireWall
capabilities could have mitigated the malware infection.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm