Carol, Working them in this way will cause you problems with memory etc in the long run. I use AVG as a main scanner, and a command line scanner called F-prot to be on the safe side. Andrew. ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** vacation ## d ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq