This is kind of along the lines of, "I never thought I'd see the day when..." but it seems some sick wacko out there has stepped over the line and made a dangerous data file -- from the symantec site: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.linux.jbellz.... basic synopsis: there is an MP3 file floating about with an intentionally malformed header field; this causes /specific/ versions of mpg123 to "do bad things", namely, deletes the files in the user's home directory (~) and subdirectories. Obviously, it won't kill your system, but it'll still be a PITA... Since SuSE 8.0 is on the "specific versions targeted" list, I'm surprised I hadn't seen note of it [on the plus side, however, I rarely play christmas music in January, mp3 or otherwise] Also, I use XMMS for most of my mp3 playing [or konquerer's built in player, which I think is noatun?] This was listed AND fixed in one day [gotta love that whole "open" source bit... ;) ] but it is still a sad day to realize that a linux multimedia program can be considered in the same class as windows-media-player-7 (8? 9? could you take over version 6?) when it comes to "vulnerabilities" [yes, I know that is a bit harsh, but I'm calling it as I see it.] OTOH, this is no different than any other "buffer overrun" error -- anytime you allow "data" to overwrite "code" you're in for a world of hurt... [that's part of the reason I've liked working on a particular mainframe I've been associated with for the last 15-20 years -- "code" and "data" are identified by seperate registers, it is functionally impossible to allow a "buffer overrun" to write to "code" memory]