Just be sure to be well firewalled while you reload all critical patches. I
just applied all updates to a neighbor's teenage daughters laptop today.
The machine is well specced, and wireless and bluetooth equipped--a latitude
D800--but their family rule was no Internet access with it until now--so it
was as delivered, on SP1, no antivirus, no antispyware. I started out
working in their kitchen in the evening using an open access point from
another neighbor, but that got old fast, so I brought it home. It wouldn't
connect wirelessly to my WPA/WPA2 protected AP until the updates were
completed, so I had to plug a wire in. Besides all the Windows Updates, I
added OneCare and Windows Defender. A large number of other installed apps
had updates as well--not all were security-related, but:
QuickTime
Flash/Shockwave
Ez cd creator
several DVD player apps.
A number of pieces of an Adobe suite she has student licences for from the
school
A piece of software to talk to a TI programmable calculator
Adobe Acrobat 6 (which required the cd, which I don't have)
Adobe Acrobat Reader (ditched acrobat 4, and reader 5, for reader 7)
Didn't put in Sun's Java.
Did update the system bios--the new version was, I think A13, the original
was A3, and I figured that might well be worth it.
Bluetooth driver software needed to be updated.
There've been a lot of changes in the world since SP1!
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