Thank you, Steve, for a very articulate & rational post. :-) - ferg -- "Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote: [snip] Anyone who thinks AOL is doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, please speak up now... [FX: sound of crickets chirping] Yup. That's what I thought. Not having to support people who have tons of viruses saves money, and therefore is a good idea. Making it easier for people to avoid infection is good business, especially when you are talking about AOL's userbase (in terms of sheer numbers and the Internet expertise of the stereotypical AOL member). [snip] -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/