JP... sounds like a classic case of PARANOIA if ya ask me..."There are also a lot of people running web servers using Front Page, that have not password protected access to their web folders"
That's their problem not mine... only a dullard wouldn't password protect ANY net access to their computer, and well, there's only one way to really learn eh?
What one person calles 'spyware', I tend to call 'the price of cyberspace'... there ain't nothing that a damn cookie can take off my computer that I ain't afraid of people knowing about...