XP hasn't really been out long enough for the folks at Alias Wavefront to do any kind of modification for XP's quirks; ergo it ain't gonna get recommended for XP until the coders can make sure that it all works in XP. Give it time; they'll prolly add XP into the pile in about 6 months or so. - boring *ix stuff clarifications (and perhaps a little backpedaling on my part too) fer praxis :) - Fair enough - there are indeed viruses that do work in *ix, but I could probably count them on one hand, two tops... hence the assertion of there not being a 'real' way to get *ix viruses going. Also, Morris hit in 1998, a time when even many *ix admins were still fairly complacent about Internet security. *ix is the toughest environment for a virus to do anything in, much less propagate; it takes a serious security hole to allow it, and enough folks who don't keep current on their patches (with things like red hat's up2date, it's gonna get even tougher still as time goes by.) Compared to Windows' hundreds of thousands, statistically I'm still right, so nyah :p (by the by, "smug" is the last thing I am when it concerns security... I was just speaking in general terms. I'm damned near religious when it comes to patches either at home or at work.) Also, my assertion about the rarity of *ix warez may have been a bit overeggagerated, but as you yourself said - it will take you a long while to find 'em, making them rare indeed. OTOH, finding Windows warez is as close as the nearest copy of Morpheus, Bearshare, or Gnutella (yep, two of those have *ix versions, but still...) I guess the point I was trying to make is this: With so many honest alternatives around, it's not really worth the bother of warezing something in an Open Souce environment, hence you only get maybe a couple of thousand of *ix warezers compared to the millions upon millions of Windows warezers. (now if you consider mp3's to be warez, then all bets are off :) /P