greater market share. However its also true that Linux is much harder to write a virus for, becuase its a lot harder for them to infect the system. You can't just run a virus from a webpage in Linux and hope to get away with it for instance. Under windows you can and its up to software on top of the operating systemt o prevent it, unless you;re in a limited account which as I said earlier is simply not practical. There are so many ways in which MS could have prevented thewholesale spread of viruses by email for instance, without being offcious. For instance instead of the download pictures removal for instance. They should have llowed the user to specify Text only email and be **** with the vendors and their pretty adverts. This is just a simple example. Others include the codecs for MP. They should have forced the vendors to use specific known formats, rather than allowing user coding. The web browser should have been prevented entirely from modifying the system, Downloads should only be possible through actual proper links and not through automated scripting. This is of course if they wanted a truely secure OS and actually cared more about the end user than the vendors, this is not the case for good business reasons. i all, nice to see honest-to-goodness minds at work from many angles. if my topic's off, please point me in the right direction. i have Vista Premium, and what bugs me