I have a refurbished compaq computer with home edition xp software

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Bun Mui

I have recently bought a refurbished compaq computer with home edition
xp software already installed on the computer.

How do I know if the current software on the computer is late enough
to
protect against MS blaster worm ?

How could I check? By version or date of the software, if so, where?

Thanks.

Bun Mui
 
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I have recently bought a refurbished compaq computer with home edition
xp software already installed on the computer.

How do I know if the current software on the computer is late enough
to
protect against MS blaster worm ?

How could I check? By version or date of the software, if so, where?

Thanks.

Bun Mui
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download all the windows critical updates
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turn on the xp firewall
and update and run a full virus scan

those three steps will keep blaster at bay.
 
Bun said:
I have recently bought a refurbished compaq computer with home edition
xp software already installed on the computer.

How do I know if the current software on the computer is late enough
to
protect against MS blaster worm ?
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Not easily to be certain. If you run regedit and look at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\WindowsXP\SP1
and it has a sub-key Q823980
then the patch *has* been implemented. But it might have been protected
later by running a consolidated patch. If that key is not there, get
the patch anyway, to be sure.

First make sure the firewall is implemented - at Control Panel - Network
Connections right click on the connection used and take Properties - on
the Advanced page check the box to enable the firewall. With that done,
Blast can't get in. Then go to
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;823980#WinXP
and get the first Download Now link
 
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