Re: Imitating Nature - viruses everywhere - get over it
> I remember doing an XP install some years ago for a friend
Ah yes, heady times... Same here, I had finished the installation of XP for a family member and was downloading all the Windows Update patches, except I had already installed software which controlled which programs were allowed to run, and since it was still in the learning phase, it all of a sudden asked me if some strange alphanumerically named program located in /temp was supposed to start. Nothing was supposed to run at that point, I was still downloading stuff (back then Microsoft still bothered to tell you what it was doing, even to ask for your permission before doing something! Yes, yes, young people won't believe it...).
That was the shortest time before attack I've witnessed. I prevented the program from starting, emptied the /temp folder, and that computer and its user lived happily ever after.