Why not give antivirus software a go!

I have recently found a few clients with out up to date Antivirus software or none at all. Some have been very fortunate and have escaped without a major issue.

The most recent had bought a laptop from the High street and got straight down to using the laptop. McAfee was still there waiting for you to buy and activate. There is no reason now not to have basic Antivirus protection for free with the likes of AVG, Microsoft and others. I have always installed an antivirus product on all pc and laptop builds so the owner does not have to. It is easy to remove and add your own at a later stage.

Microsoft Security Essentials is easy to install and recently has found things that the well-known paid antivirus software products failed to find.

So install security software, keep up to date and allow scanning the system also apply windows updates when prompted.

How to stop a service in XP CMD Line

Disable XP Service from XP Command Line
 The service name is the name with out any spaces
sc config "browser" start= disabled
sc config "messenger" start= disabled
sc config "upnphost" start= disabled

Stop/ Start Service

NET STOP "my service"

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