No pete, you not thinking about this right. MSN will only send what you tell it to send and things built with in it(ie contact list) I will not scower you machine and send off random bits of data, if it did that there would be an up roar in the numerous online communities and no one would use it..... EVER! And what your saying is, that programs can run from the msn folder..... congratilations you installed another program there, whats that got to do with msn supposidly taking random bits of data off your machine??? So it would still need another program like a trojan or virus to be sent to your machine. Unless you have a new article or something like that Pete, then its still going to be Bull. @ Fat Pants, MSN is only chat it needs to use other programs to access things like e-mail and websits, so if it was sending any other data it would be sending through another program not MSN.