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Yeah, that's right. NT rulez, but I can tell you something about WinXP. Don't you find, that life in Internet become dangerous nowadays? Just as you connected to Internet, somebody starting to scan your computer ports, never noticed that? But, of course, to see, if your port was scanned, you need to have right program installed, but I can tell you, that this is true. There are lot of people, (like Bastin, I can tell you confidentally* ) who want to make your comp miserable. And, coming to the main part of my monologue, Windows XP is more vulnerable for scanners, that Windows 2000, because there are lot of security patches exactly for Win2k, and for WinXP there isn't much of them. But... It is my opinion, so you may not agree with it. But I learn this s**t on my own experience, so I think a bit, and killed my WinXP and installed good old Windows 2000! Now I have firewall and hate hackers. We can only remember times, when all was great with no firewalls and stuff...
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You seems to have a strange twisted oppinion of reality. Scanning of ports been done since the beginning of the internet, and it was not originally intended for bad purposes. Nothing that hackers used nowaday been originally created for bad purposes, they are merely already existing tools that hackers use because they are easy to use, efficient and, more to the point, available.
The realy reason why Windows XP is the most easily hackable OS right now is because it's the most spread worldwide. I sure remember Win98 in it's early days, it was seen exactly like XP: a new piece of .... not worth the money in comparison to 95 and which had security holes as big as the craters on the Moon. But then, after several years, they got SE out which corrected the majority of the security holes... And not that far afterward (or perhaps it was already out), the next version got out and the attacks on Win98 severly dropped... Not because SE was any good at all (it was merely correcting bugs which should not be there in the first place [man, did I've already heard that somewhere? LOL]) but because the hackers were centering their effort on the new OS instead.
Having a firewall is not a must when you are connected to the internet, it's a necesity (sp?). Now that you know, you are just enlightened on the matter. However, the way you write it bring me to beleive you are slightly too much paranoid on the matter.
