Well, i have a computer at work which shows chkdsk _everytime_. Everytime it finds enormous amount of errors and fixes them - but finds a lot more next time. And with FAT32, all was ok... Well, virus can add itself into alternate file stream for notepad.exe, for example. It won't be visible in standard Windows Explorer, so it is almost no chance to remove it without using additional programs. Guess what? It eats all memory (edit: &CPU), perfoms disgusting sounds and didn't helped me even once at work, while freeware tools could. You sure have good imagination However, that wasn't once, was randomly and was terrible. Fixed somewhere in SP1... >> It is more than paranoid, it's pure FUD Time will tell. >>A week after ATI released newer drivers that are a lot faster and solved all of the problems. Well, can't speak for newer ATI drivers. I've tried newer NVIDIA drivers that were released today and perfomance still suck: GDI/overall responsibility is still 3-10 times slower. I guess all-new driver architecture is rotten, however, time will tell. >>Yeah but it still has plenty of problems that alternative browsers like Avant don't have because Firefox setup doesn't install the associations correctly. Well, does Avant makes it correctly? New 'you silly negro, select program for your internets' API is not used in current programs. Maybe only via XP compatibility mode... >>The new audio stack has its advantages, for example now it natively supports 5.1/7.1 The only things i've seen in forums about new audio stack is: jerky sound and completely unability to support more than 2.0 sound. >>That same thing could have happened on 9x so I don't understand what would the sense of that story be. Well, 98 is dead, and XP is in mainstream and still have critical bugs. They haven't offered a hotfix for my russian XP, and english can't be installed (even though it doesn't contain any localizable resources). And remember, all 'shutdown correctly' patches for 98 were released publicly. >>BTW as long as I remember that vulnerability is just a double free() so as long as I know it could just hang the system. No, it was a strcpy( asLocal.Buffer, asLocal.Buffer+4 ); and is exploitable. >>Even AmigaOS didn't have a decent memory protection so what? Well, your point was about 1992 OS/2. I'm speaking about 1999 Mac OS. So, 9x wasn't the last.