Thanks Noel,

Hopefully the OP would have realised that from the rest of the sentence
where I recommended that they do not connect to the net until a firewall
is either installed or enabled but nevertheless all the better for your
pointing out the typo.

Thanks again,
--
Mike


Noel Paton wrote:

Mike - slight, but VERY important typo there.....

Note also that by default XP (and XP SP1) start with the firewall
**DISABLED**