Thanks again, Cris, I am uncertain myself whether the XP firewall is even correctly setup. I hope it is doing something! I take your point about it being questionable. No, I don't have the Pro version, just WinXPHome. I hope you're not going to ask me where it is!! (joke!) . I can't remember where I came across it! I guess I will find it if I get serious. XP is so different, that it will take an old fella like me a while to find and remember everything. My machine is going OK still, I'm pleased to say , although my net access is slow. I think I have used up my allocation of bytes, after which I revert to 56k. With all this trouble that I have had, I have done a lot of downloading, so my gigabyte could well be gone. Thanks for the URL's Cris. Keep well, and enjoy Xmas all who celebrate it, and a prosperous New Year.. Rick H To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk