>>There are ways you can make these animated images non-repeating in your browser...hehehe
>>AtGuard had something in it that handled that.
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>AtGuard still works (though the company who wrote it doesn't). You can paste the path to the image into AtGuard's trashcan and you'll only see the background next time.

Yeah it still works, except is dificult to get it installed on XP. You need to have windows 2000, install atguard, then upgrade to XP - I havent been able to do the install itself on XP. If you do the upgrade trick, AtGuard will still run, however you loose the logging ability. (and I REALLY REALLY REALLY wish I could figure out how to get that to work...any chance you know a way???)

You are also correct about the company who wrote it not existing anymore. Interesting enough, Symantec bought them out, and if you ever run Norton Internet Security (Symantec's firewall software) you'll even see some of the same screens.