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Windows update
      Mon Sep 18 2006 09:39 PM

About a fortnight ago, a mate of mine had to completely wipe his HD and re do everything because of a load of nasty viruses of which apparently came via the microsoft windows update.
When he told me, I disabled the automatic updatees but from that moment on, I too had aggro including countless trojans and so on.
In the end, my pc was completely messed up and I had to wipe everything at the cost of £58 through DELL.

Aparently this may have been caused via the windows update as it was said hackers got into the MS site and put these files on there to make the viruses.
Is the Windows update safe? Does it have a problem with infecting with viruses or can I update things from there now?

Thanks

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