Technical Questions

[Griffin NoName]

BTW .NET is required to install certain driver utilities now, like ATi display control center. .NET may seem like a bloat but if most applications were using it all the problems with dlls and the registry would go away very quickly.

Fine and good if and when. Meanwhile worst of both worlds

Other thing: I notice your concern for security ..............Still the risk is quite low.

Or perhaps I should be more concerned about my security? 

One's sense of security gets shaken when one has had episodes of watching attacks (blocked) come in the minute one connects  

I reset the modem and Beagle is right as far as MS is concerned- Onecare turns on the XP firewall initially anyway.