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XP Embedded?

Feb 29, 2004 12:36AM PST

This is a little confusing so bear with me. My brother bought an E-machine with XP Home SP1 pre-installed. No Windows Updates show in Add/Remove.

He goes to Windows Update and writes down the numbers of the one it lists, so I can download on my faster connection and burn to disk for him.

Update does not list that he needs 824146 or 815021. But an AVG scan finds nachi.b. How did that happen?

A lot of the updates it lists, have never been offered to me with XP Pro and are not on my computer. When I go to each KB article, it offers downloads for XP and XP embedded. I don't know which ones to get. What exactly does XP embedded SP1 mean? Would it be possible that is what is on his machine, and how can I tell for sure? The more I Google, the more confused I get.

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Re:XP Embedded? is just XP of another flavor. Your real problem is NACHI
Feb 29, 2004 1:10AM PST

"But an AVG scan finds nachi.b. How did that happen?"

The short answer is no antivirus will stop WORMS like MS Blaster and its varients. The "How"? is simple. The machine was connected to the internet without SP1 or using XP' own firewall.

Here's an article on MS Blaster and varients -> http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

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Re:Re:XP Embedded? is just XP of another flavor. Your real problem is NACHI
Feb 29, 2004 1:29AM PST

So you think it was on there when he got the machine, since it came with XP Home SP1 installed?

I figured out why his is showing updates I don't have. They are for MDAC versions and jscript.dll versions I don't have, so I didn't need the updates.

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No way of telling.
Feb 29, 2004 1:40AM PST

The worms have multiple methods of invading. People still PREVIEW e-mail from unknown senders. Doing so is now just not done.

How can we be sure they didn't open an e-mail? Or view the wrong web site?

Bob

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Re:No way of telling.
Feb 29, 2004 7:40PM PST

yep sounds like a reformat job if you have a worm and it sounds about right then start again this time using a clean one

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''Patch''!
Feb 29, 2004 9:15PM PST