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Interesting...

I know for a fact that the Knoppix Live CD couldn't have "picked up" a virus - even if you managed to get to the internet, because it runs strictly on a RamDisk, which it creates during each boot. So, if a virus was picked up, it would simply evaporate when you shutdown. Assuming the ISO was flawed, I would think you wouldn't be able to boot Knoppix. From what I hear, "looking" at NTFS disks is fine, but touching them, editing and saving, is a bad thing, it can cause file/disk corruption - which is mentioned in these forums "many" times. This is also the reason why Knoppix DEFAULTS to read-only on any drives it detects, when booted from the CD.

Even if Knoppix did pick up a virus, it would have to be a virus "specific" to Linux/Debian/Unix, and since booting into a OS that is not Unix is by far, a different breed, shouldn't be able to "cross-platform" OS's. A MAC virus can not infect a PC, for this same reason, a PC virus can not infect a Unix/Linux. Assuming they don't have "same" file systems. Since you are running a NTFS file system in Win2k, and Knoppix is not only using a RamDisk, but also uses a Linux FS, they are not cross-platform.

Only thing I can think of is that (knowing M$) it saw you going behind its back, and trying another (competition) OS, and it got mad at you. [ j / k and sorry, I couldn't resist ]

Knoppix was made on the CD so that it "wouldn't" touch your OS, it runs without having to use, or take, anything away from your "already" working OS. It is even safe-gaurded, by not allowing WRITE access, by default, to existing drives on your system. Only thing I could think of is that: Did you do a "Save Knoppix Configuration", or a "Create Persistant Knoppix Home", or "Create Knoppix Swap File" - and if so, did those things get placed on your Win2k hard drive?

Just some ideas,
Cuddles