I have never had any heartburn with macromedia flash player. I have found it to be very docile. I would rate it on your scale as a 0 (zero).I would rate Real even higher than you did. I have been able to carefully avoid viruses, worms, etc. but have been stung more than once by Real installing itself without permission. Tom Mayer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peetie Wheatstraw" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: [PCSOFT] Macromedia Flash Player Re: Macromedia Flash Player Greetings, Many years ago I installed RealAudio on my desktop only to find that it "wanted to take over my pc". It exhibited all kinds of obnoxious behavior. I uninstalled and avoided contact with any "Real" software. There are many "free" software products which can and/or will cause headaches with system management, etc? How about Macromedia Flash Player? In the last month I've probably seen 100 "Do you want to install ..." screens in my W2k IE6 browser. If RealAudio, on an obnoxiousness scale of 0-100, ranks about 85 (making it preferable to viri and worms), how does Flash rank? Is there a way to install and then disable it so I won't see the "Do you want to install ..." screens anymore? Thanx, Peetie ------------------------------------------------------------ | Peetie Wheatstraw [log in to unmask] | ------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ Enter now for a chance to win a 42" Plasma Television! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;6413623;3807821;f?http://mocda1.com/1/c/563632/113422/313631/313631 AOL users go here: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;6413623;3807821;f?http://mocda1.com/1/c/563632/113422/313631/313631 This offer applies to U.S. Residents Only The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with the OpenOffice CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml