RCA RM2100 MSNTV Internet Receiver
No Viruses
I own 7 computers and I buy used computers all the time.  I have to go in and clear out all the viruses and then load programs into these older systems to once again make them useful.  My friends are forever suffering from viruses, trojan horses, and all sorts of other fun problems.     I can custom build a computer from scratch without thinking twice on how to do it.  You know what?  I will not put one of them on the internet.  I don't want to have to go in and clean out more viruses and spyware and a host of other junk that will clog up your system.  I clean them out once and that is it.  Free software comes with free spyware.  I don't need that.  Computers are also very easy to hack.  Try hacking someones webtv system.  Good luck there.     Yes the system has short comings.  It was not designed to act like a computer.  Some very ingenious folks have figured out ways to make it act a lot like one though.  Do some homework and you can do just about anything with these systems.  Especially the plus systems.  And yes, I can even burn CD's with it, but then again, I'm a wiz at hooking stuff up to make it all work.  I have used other internet access only devices and yet I still stay with this MSNTV box.  I have read other's reviews and can only say, they did not do their homework before critisizing these boxes.     An example is that one person tried to link an MSN e-mail account to the box,  said he was lied to and could not get the account linked, I am useing a hotmail.com address that I have linked into this box.  Don't know what he did wrong except maybe fail to use his passport access.   If you want safety and the best of both worlds, don't give up the computer, just keep it off line and surf the web with one of these boxes and use it to communicate through e-mail with others.  These systems are simple, cheap, reliable, no crashes, and a lot of fun.  Not perfect when comparing to a computer, but they were not designed to be compared to a computer.  Slow?  Yes, butI can live with slow instead of virus attacks that could cost me lost hours, files and even a couple of thousand dollars because I have to buy a new system.