True --

but I was on a Pentium IV just last week testing it, and while the latest version of Norton Antivirus was on, the game was noticably slow.

I paused the Antivirus, and the game began running at full speed.

Actually, surfing the web is NOT a high risk for viruses. You can visit GameFaqs, most gaming sites, CNN.com, News.com, and hundreds (and thousands) of other mainstream sites, and not get a single virus.

Now if you go to the shadier parts of the Net, you'll get lots of SPYWARE. But viruses come from downloading software (and e-mails) -- since the web browser (yes, even IE) can't write to your HD.

Matthew

I assume youve never played utopia then?
games.swirve.com/utopia

Is that game still active?

The server seemed to be down at least -- I just got the MSN search page when I typed in that URL. I tried Google, and it replaced the "games" part with "games2" but with the same result.

Matthew