" From: "Timothy O'Connell" <toconnel@xxxxxxx> " " Or you could just get a Mac and be done with the whole virus thing " entirely.....including the exploits of IE. You can pick up a used iMac on " eBay for a few hundred dollars, it'll be faster than the PIII / 500mhz and " will come bundled with a bunch of apple software that'll make it super easy " out of the box. " " Just a thought. i'll second that, in spades. mac osx even comes with a firewall. both my mother and gf have imacs - the latter a convert from peecees - and they're both very satisfied. ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought