The Security Mentor

You see, it's not exactly a new machine. It may have been months since the operating system got installed, depending on how long the computer has been on a shelf. That's long enough for new security problems to be discovered. Your brand new machine probably needs security updates.

Which you'd get from the Internet, but it's not safe to connect to the Internet without first doing the security updates.

Fortunately, there's a detailed, step by step guide to surviving the first day with a Windows XP computer. Check it out.