Ye gads, man! Get yourself a firewall and some anti-virus.

Especially get yourself anti-virus if you're going to be downloading things from the net. I'm a fan of Norton AntiVirus (2005 edition is current and I have it on my work laptop), but McAfee and Innoculate (eTrust) are also good.

ZoneAlarm firewall is a free download from www.zonelabs.com, so there's simply no excuse for not using it. Its also quite easy to configure. Once you've installed it, the next time you run Phex, it will ask you if the program should be allowed to act as a server (say yes, as Phex is both client and server in one).

Unless you're running behind a router or corporate firewall, then running your own firewall is a must. If you're using Windows, then this goes double.

Good luck! Hopefully someone will answer the question re CPU usage (I think its because Phex is scanning the disk for files to share, but its over the top when it makes the PC unusable).

I'm also interested to see if anyone has the same downloading issue I have...

Cheers,
Fidel