Please answer all of the following questions by number in your next reply
(no need to quote this post):
1. Is the computer currently fully-patched at Windows Update & is SP3
installed?
2. What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)?
What third-party firewall (if any)?
3. Did a Norton or McAfee free-trial come preinstalled on the computer when
you bought it (and which would have been reinstalled, but invalid, when you
reinstalled Windows)?
4 steps to help protect your new computer before you go online
http://www.microsoft.com/security/pypc.aspx
5. Did you take care of everything on the above page BEFORE otherwise
connecting the machine to the internet or a local network (i.e., other
computers) AND BEFORE connecting a flash drive, SDCard, or any other
external drive to the computer?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
BOB wrote:
> Hi all
> I just reinstalled xp pro clean install on hp a1600n
> I used a flash drive to install some software now there 4 removable
> drives showing in my computer nothing is pluged in any usb port.
> How did this happen and how to get rid of it???
> Thank you for any help
> Bob C