Since it's beyond most of us to rewrite and recompile the main Poser executable file to eliminate its connection attempts, and since it's unreasonable to disable network connectivity just due to this one "Trojan horse", there are two other options of last resort: 1. Wait for Poser 6 and hope it doesn't have a connection subroutine encoded in the main program file. AFAIK it won't, since that idea died when control of Poser transferred to Egisys. 2. Wait for Daz Studio Base. AFAIK it doesn't have a connection subroutine encoded in the main program file, but we have to wait to find out for certain. 3. I would also suggest that Egisys might be willing to replace Windows users' copies with a newer non-connecting installation version for a small fee, say $49.95. This would be a goodwill gesture with a view to increasing future sales of Poser 6.