[TankGirl]

...and out goes Hyperterminal from my system. Thanks again Malk-a-mite for bringing us important security information.

Note also this important news item that Malk posted recently on P2P:

Windows Media Player hole surrenders your machine
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19164.html

"The Windows Media Player ASX (Active Stream Redirector) processor contains an unchecked buffer susceptible to an overrun which could enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on a machine with the victim's level of permission, a Microsoft security bulletin warns. "

So if you use Windows Media Player 6.4 or 7 it might be wise to download and run the security patch for ver 6.4 or the upgrade to 7.1 from ver 7.

Microsoft has had plenty of security problems in its standard software lately and especially IE seems to be a big security hole in itself.

- tg