Hi Sandy, Perhaps you'd like to have a look at WebWasher. I have been using it for years. It is highly configurable, e.g. you have many choices of what you want to filter out and you can switch some filters off, exit it, turn it to "offline" (for instance when reading your OE mail while being online and you don't want the sender to see that you've read the message) all with one click. It comes with a help file and this page explains in even more details how to use it http://www.pacificnet.net/~bbruce/the_url_filter.htm You may need to exit it when going to MS Updates. I am very happy with it. I had a look at Proxomitron which claims WebWasher is sloppily written, but it seemed far too complicated for me. On another note may I ask all of you not to quote my e-mail addie in the body of any of your messages as the whole wide world can see it and harvest our addresses. I got so annoyed with the few spam mails I received that I went to a lot of trouble and expense to change my address. (My ISP doesn't make this easy) Hope this doesn't annoy Regards Elisabeth VIEW ARCHIVES @ //www.freelists.org UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk Contact List Owner - dbcfour@xxxxxxx