I simply want to know what it wants on the net ? It would be of use do do this once after startup or whatever - but so often ? Poser was not so aggressive in SR3. I blocked it now, but I will try to find out where it goes and what it does. Why should an application like Poser sniff around the net ? Okay it looks for other Poser copies on the net, this still does not explan everything. Mungo