Csommer - Tell the gentleman, politely, BULLPATS! Not if the install is designed properly. Keoto - No. Since it appears that no one has received a response to any of the email queries to Curious Labs that has offered a definitive answer, we still have not gotten to the bottom of this. Anthony Appleyard - Is it actually dialing out at this point? If it is, there is a way to disable that feature, if a disable feature is not offered by the program. It requires digging into your registry and manually rewriting a part of it. When I installed MS Visual Studio I had the same hassle and my only out was to go into the registry and change it manually. Again, this is something that you should not have to do. A responsible vendor would make sure you could easily disable this. And if this is one of those "new features" Curious Labs has given us for Poser then I will stick with 4.02 and bid adios to any future products from Curious Labs. I am going to load Poser and the 4.03 patch on a computer system of a friend of mine. He's was in the security business before I was and has stayed long after I left. I will let him tear the thing apart and see what he comes up with. Its just too bad that it has come to this. Like I said, CL has lost my trust and it will take a heck of a lot to get it back. I hope they enjoy themselves in the Big Easy because they have a mess to clean up when they get back. Everyone take care and I want to repeat that I do not think it would be prudent to install the patch until CL comes forward with an explanation.