You're missing the point. Of course anyone can turn down or off the sound, but if you don't offer people the choice of whether or not to listen to the music, people with old computers and old browsers will have to forgo using your site. Music takes time and bandwidth to download, whether or not it is listened to. Valorie KMTKrause@aol.com wrote: > > Are you saying any embedded music can carry a virus? It's not that people > are "forced" to listen to the music. They can turn off their sound. > > In a message dated 5/19/2001 2:01:30 PM Central Daylight Time, > RootsWeb-Help-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > What I do NOT understand is the insistence of some people to force > > on visitors the music (mplayer.exe). What I have learned - NEVER > > trust it! trojan viruses are known to be able to travel in this > > manner. There are some sites that make it an option, giving the > > visitors a choice of clicking it or not instead of being forced