I finally have had it with M$ and all their crap. I had XP on this box (dual-boot) I set up my router to log all traffic to and from this box. On viewing the logs I notice that XP is open to msn.com so I finally fixed that bloody virus with fdisk. In its space I'll try Gentoo. Collins did you have any probs with the initial "emerge rsync"? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C.