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Change the password for the Administrator. account. The Administrator account allows full control of your Windows XP or. Windows 2000 PC, and the account …

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Important Security Measures for Windows XP: Steps to Help Protect
Your Computer and Personal Data
NOTE: BEFORE YOU PLUG INTO ANY COMPUTER OUTLET ON CAMPUS, follow the instructions in this booklet. Your computer can be compromised within seconds of connecting.2 Important Security Measures for Windows XP
Introduction
Over the past several years, over a thousand computers at Duke University have been hacked. Hacking exposes the user’s computer and their data to the Internet and allows for the potential of identity theft. While Microsoft now recognizes this as a legitimate problem, several additional things can be done to decrease the chances of this happening to your computer.
Nobody’s perfect. Neither is your operating system…
Every operating system (including Windows, Macintosh, Linux, or Unix) has some problems. Some of these problems make the operating system (also known as the “OS”) susceptible to viruses, worms, and code that can cause your PC to crash or even allow people to take control of it remotely.
Microsoft’s Windows OS gets criticized the most, but the main reason for this is that more people use Windows PCs than any other type of computer. The people that take advantage of these holes in the OS do it for precisely that reason: they can affect the most people.
Nothing personal…
Why do they do it? Sometimes it’s for the challenge, but more often it’s for the free space on your hard drive. With the…

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