You have crashed my instance of NET (and that of a friend) several times with this action. It is normally runs for months on end until I need to reboot the machine, but in that case it just crashes. I know it must be a bug somewhere in the years old naive TCP implementation but I have not been able to locate it yet. Until then, I have just blocked you in the firewall. Just to let you know that actions like this (and the one Ronen proposed) *do* cause damage to others. Rob