How big a risk is a shared drive on an XP PC?

OK - please don't flame me for a newbie dumbass question but I have been
searching the net for a while now without finding a clear answer to the
following, and I am hoping you can help.
I have recently changed from Win98SE to WinXP corp pro, running Norton

I have a small LAN and I have WinXP Pro acting as a router/gateway to the
WAN.
One of my user is downloading from Kazaa like mad and I wanted to ban kazaa
traffic to his IP address.

This isn't a life or death matter by any means, but I've got a strange
behavior under WinXP that I can't figure out or understand.  I
normally am logged on as an administrator (this is a home machine).
However, I've used a version of RUNAS that allows the password to be

When I view my hard drive in My Computer it says "Local
Disk (C:)" in blue text.  Also some folders and files on
C: appear in blue text in My Computer.  All the other
icons look normal.  It makes me nervous some setting

I got Win XP and I wanted to throw a password on my
temporary internet files folder. Is this possible? I want
to see where people are going on my internet (ie. my
little brother).

Just wondering when SP2 is going to be released?

My ISP disconnects my service automatically every two
hours.  If I am downloading Windows Updates, the service
will normally recover itself on reconnection and carry on
from where it left off.  However, although this is

If anyone can help before I pull my hair out it will be
much appreciated.
I was trying to change settings in my registry but I
cannot access it, I type in Regedit, Regedit.exe.,from my

I enabled ICF on a Xp machine connected to a router. This machine can be access via Remote Desktop. Only port 3389 is opened in ICF
The router has DMZ setup so traffic can go to/from this machine over Internet
My log says there are many "hits" from a specific IP address, can ...

My office programs are all locked and i can't edit, open
new documents, cut, paste, nor even backspace. i tried
using the "stop protection" in the tools panel and even
altering the properties of the document. All my taskbars

I cannot sign onto my internet explorer without it going
crazy. It will load my homepage (www.msn.com) and its
stupid pop-up ads. It will continue to do this 20 or so
times without giving me any control. Norton Internet

I have just downloaded the blaster worm removal tool
KB 833330 to try and clean up my system.
My question is: will this tool affect any programs on my
computer as I do not have the back-up disks. CompUSA

When I right click on web pages there are unwanted
messages on the menu. Above the properties. Please help?

Looks like the fix cleaned everything but the restore
files now. Norton now scans the restore files and finds
it being infected. Anyone know how to delete these with a
script????? I have about 1500 machines to do this on.