I just finished showing my Mom a few things. There is a good chance there is spyware or a Worm on my Mom's Windows 2000 box, and being the good BOFH I am, I looked into it a bit and the Norton scanner is outdated and won't update, and of course there are no back up things except a little floppy disk with a few things on it. OK, no problem, I'm on my Slackware 10.1 box, I SSH in to my SUSE box (Didn't feel like getting up, and no BOFH on earth is going to actually do it either, we use Networks damn it!) so I SSH in, su, YAST, make a new log in for her, allow her to FTP in with this account (I have it set up so FTP is allowed but you have to have a valid log in name that I and only I can tell you) and then download putty for her to show her a few things about Unix and remote access. So now I back up everything on her box to the FTP server / SUSE Workstation, and then show her how it works. Then I pop open putty and have her log in. Then I let her use Pine to send me messages she needs to send me once in a while, and she seems to enjoy it. It's kind if neat when you show a Windows user how Unix works out a bit. She was amazed at how easy it is to get back ups done, and then download them again in case they are deleted or I need to format.... Or she refuses to give out some Vicodin to me and I edit the registry lol. So now my Mom has a bit of Unix in her, and has a full back up. She isn't a computer person and I only allowed FTP and command line access to the box and she played around a bit too. Just goes to show you, it's only as hard as you make it to be.