That is one of the newer things I'm really beginning to dislike... Scripts having priveleages of running programs on my computer. Soooo many innovations, so much trouble. A while back (before Nimda was recognized, yes, before) I saw many, and I do mean many, default.ida, cmd.exe, etc requests in my Linux, Apache logs. My server served my 404 page many times eating up 300MB in 1 day alone. As a result I created files it looked for with blank files of the same name. Instead of serving up 1000's of 404's is served up 1000's of blank files (0 bytes) and found it saved me alot of bandwidth trouble. Ever since I started putting those blank files in my root, it has saved me literally gigs of bandwidth a month (except when it does this crap "../../". I also have a blank page for the 400 bad request errors. Sometimes it is good just to create a blank file if you get alot of 404's on a specific request, cause most likely, a blank file is smaller than your custom 404's which can save in bandwidth. ;) Just my 2 cents about Nimda.