I appreciate the comments on the firewall. I've worked hard to lock
this machine down after my early experience. Soon after hooking up to
always on broadband, with Zone Alarm as my only defense, the machine
got very, very slow. I defragged the hard disk and tried all sorts of
other things. Cable was almost as slow as dial up.

Then, Zone Alarm popped up a program I'd never seen before. It did
some checking and figured out that it wanted to look in my internet
temporary files. I also found my previously 15% utilized hard disk
full. I looked and found gigs of porno movies stashed on my disk,
child porno and other really bad stuff. Someone had turned my machine
into a server for their filth. I got religion and a hardware firewall
backed up by software. I also made a text editor the default program
for running all scripts and similar programs.

Oops, I just broke my pledge to stay on topic.

BTW, the boat just went in the water today. Look for post and
pictures later.

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Roger Long