We have a firewall on our router and on each of the computers as well.  My son is running Vista and he loves it but doesn't do any of the things I do so I'm staying with my XP Pro until I don't have a choice any more.   It was the same when I had my 98SE ... I didn't change until I had to buy a new computer.  Since then I've learned how to build my own and I have my legitimate copy of XP Pro on disk so I can keep it until it's no longer supported by MS.

Hugz from Phoenix, USA

Victoria

Remember, sometimes the dragon wins. Correction: MOST times.