Check out the utility Mark Cook wrote by my request some time ago called BlockDNS to add and append entries to the host file http://thethin.net/blockdns.zip There is also a lot of links to other good utilities for host files at: http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ JK http://thin.net "Etts, Russell" <retts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all I am using Kixtart as my login script (WARNING - I'm a scripting newbie!). Has anyone had any luck in creating a script that will update a HOST file? Help?? Thanks Russell Remember, you can't spell "Quality" without "IT"