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   Tim Wilson to All   
   Preventing downloading of executables   
   01 Apr 07 21:43:31   
   
   From: tWilson148@comcast.net   
      
   I am asking for a friend who has XP Home Edition on her computer at home,   
   and after I obtained the recovery disks from HP for the computer &   
   reinstalled the OS, within two weeks, the thing was full of spyware. Guess   
   why: adolescent boy in house, of course, target of all web-marketing   
   malicious, etc.   
      
   So, I don't know much about XP, but I do know that at home and at the   
   office, I keep systems clean by making everybody a restricted user. Is this   
   configuration available in XP Home, and how do I effect it?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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