john said:
i am about to re format my hard drive, do i need to disconnect the broadband
while doing so?
john marsden.
Presumably you're doing this to install an operating system? It'd be a
good idea to do so (unless there's a router with NAT capabilities
between your computer and the broadband modem), until you get a firewall
and anti-virus application installed. It takes only minutes, sometimes
seconds, for a computer to become infected by exposure to the Internet
without protection.
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