"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:uzMamLkEGHA.3024@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> 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.

Ah ha....you didn't say you had a router. :-) And yes, none of the good
stuff had been installed or tweaked yet on the machine in question.