I hate it, as shanim. I really hate it. I wish there was a good solution to stopping it, but I fear there isn't. I'm sometimes tempted to "sneak" a copy of a piece of software onto the 4 systems in our house network, but though I'm tempted, I don't do it. Just last week, my wife stopped using the old shareware version of Windows Commander and purchased an upgrade to Total Commander. I was tempted load it on mine but didn't (keeping the older copy I paid for). People like you are just making ends meet, I suppose, and as you said, doing work that you prefer to do. Hearing about stuff like this makes me want to support buried viruses that wipe out a person's PC when they load it.