pro crastinator
4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: No hindsight for the blind.
Posts: 1,842
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lol "don't even know what that means" then "thats what I meant"? 
About updating, if you install windows from an old cd, you definitely want to update it asap. If your win disc is SP2+ then I guess you could skip it.
About the firewall, when you say "buy a hardware firewall" you mean a router that has some fw capacity built in, right? Anyways, I like running a software one because it tells me excactly who is trying to send/receive and when. Even a nerd like me isn't gonna bother with looking through the logs of a hw firewall, but a zonealarm popup box gets my attention.
Come to think of it, I don't have a router right now. Haven't even thought about it since my laptop died, didn't think about the firewall stuff in it. Gonna get a new router (and new laptop  ).
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