thanks, hugh for the dat. info. I carried out a thorough scan of my pc last night - all 403,148 files [6 hours]. no virus, etc. detected.....................! colin t -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com/pipermail/bitlist/attachments/20100901/09c4b19b/attachment.shtml