reinstalling windows xp

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From: Art (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/23/04


Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 04:22:22 -0700

Hi Nancy,
         You leave yourself open to virus attacks that
take advantage of weaknesses in Windows which Microsoft
has remedied in their updates.
          I went without updates when I had Windows ME
until a virus or trojan broke my machine and put me
through 2 weeks of Hell until I finally upgraded to XP.
Now I pay attention to those updates.

The Easy Day
>-----Original Message-----
>I had so many problems with my computer after working
wiht
>Dell tech support we reinstalled windowxp-my problem is I
>am scared to death of going back to windows update page
>and getting the updates,that is when all my troubles
>started.What would happen if I didn't do this?? Does
>Anyone not do this?
>.
>



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