Thanks for the info Nicole. I will try to have a look later to see if there is a newer version to the one I'm running.

I do leave my PC switched on most of the time these days, partly as Pip shares resources such as printer and files on my PC but only have a 28K dial up connection and although it may seem otherwise at times, I am not always on the Internet!

I only noticed these things since moving to Win 2000 pro from Win 98. I've since also been hit by "Code Red" but perhaps it is all coincidence. In some ways, I wish I'd have stuck with my plan of Linux and Apache but I have a legacy of using an ISP running WIN 2000 servers, running scripts in ASP (I know of Chilliesoft but that costs money) and running DOS/Win versions of programs from php scripts to consider - I'd rather test on the same or similar to what my ISP runs.

As for "Code Red", I think a MS patch fixed that but these days I only have PWS switched on when I need to test things. These occasions have been rare lately - there have been no ideas for additions or improvements to the Annexe or folkinfo for a while and no need to "bug fix" - although, I've had problems lately like one that turned out to be another user on the same shared server using 10+ unclosed DB connections per page...