On 12/7/07, Funny NYPD wrote: > Is it a Windows issue? Or it is just an IE issue? > With Firewall and router setup correctly, my windows seems working fine. > It is true, I have more linux machine running than windows. The one I mentioned (Yahoo Assistant ) is more an IE issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Assistant But there are other things which may affect Windows so that Firefox users may not be immune too. The problem is that some virus in China is a bit different so that even if you have patched your anti-virus (Norton or similar) you may still get infected. I am a careful user under Windows so that I myself have not encountered this problem yet. And actually I seldom boot into Windows at home since late last year. But I spent quite some time last time to solve the problem of Yahoo Assistant once for my wife. Now she is quite careful so my support job is not that difficult. She does not like Linux and Firefox. So her next notebook computer will be Vista based but I am still looking for a relative cheap one (I will pay for the upgrade to 3 year warranty since I have no confidence to any brand of notebook computers). The other computer (my bother-in-law's) was infected with a virus because my father-in-law used it. He has to reinstall Windows to fix the problem. My brother-in-law (a PhD -- permant head damaged) is stubborn enough and he does not want to install any anti-virus software (he has a relatively slow computer, a 3.5 years old Sempron 2400 computer, the old generation of Sempron which is based on Atholon XP) and he does not want to run Linux. He himself is very careful and seldom has problems and he educated my parents-in-law to be careful when they were here but the education failed... Both my parents and my parents-in-law like to use the Internet. My father plays on-line games which I do not do. He uses better cell-phones and better computers than I. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist