Wow! That was very informative! A great post in my opinion But this does raise the question of "why?" in my mind.... Why would Microsoft put that feature into their file system?? <Conspiracy Theory> Correct me if I'm wrong, but NTFS was used in all Microsoft OS's after Windows 2000... And DCOM was also included in all versions of windows after 2000 right? Hmm, I wonder why would they make a feature that hides files on peoples systems and then put in another feature that allows them to get into any system they want??? Its farfetched, but anyone in the know at microsoft could have exploited millions of computers (about 90% in the world) </Conspiracy Theory> Lol! anyways... Great post!