I don't have a problem with MSWorks, either, Joe, but this just started. today, and WinPatrol won't stop popping up with it because I don't know if it is safe to tell it "okay" when it alerts me that the "???WkDetect" executable program wants to change my registry. When I follow what WP says to do about it, it doesn't stop it. I have just turned off WP just to stop the dog yapping until I know what to do.
I saw some claims online that there are some malwares, etc which may parade as WkDetect.