I must say that the last post by gunit was the most entertaining of the entire thread. Give my congradulations to your nephew. I laughed my ass off when I read that. As for the security threat just let it be, and take credit for it when it is hacked. A totaly open install of win2k running on a direct line to the net with no firewall will probably be killed before you even figure out what crack your going to attempt. If not, the security scanners should do nicely.

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