When I was using Millennium Edition, Hyperterminal was an optional
installation and I never put it on the hard drive. Now, in XP, I see
that it's installed by default and there's no way to remove it easily.
Can anybody tell me why this is so? Especially in light of this page:

http://www.trendmicro.com.au/consume...VAdvisories=24

From what I've read, it's necessary for a "Telnet session", whatever
that is, and I don't remember every doing one. Seems to me that it's
just another hole for a hacker to crawl in through. Is it going to hurt
anything to remove Hyperterminal?

TIA

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Regards from John Corliss