Kinda offtopic, but it seems to me that a short reminder every once in a while is healthy, so I'll risk getting flamed and say: Just a short note - I was looking at my logs recently and yes indeedy, I've had someone trying to hack into my machine. So it made me think I should remind everyone: Is YOUR machine ready for the internet? (Of course, I'm dialed in (at about 44k) 24x7, so my chances of getting hit are higher than the 1h/day users, but don't think that just because you are dialup you are not going to be probed...) Followups should probably go to the security-discuss list... (what, you're not on the security-discuss list?? yikes! ;-) we return you to your regularly-scheduled plug ;-) rc