No, Spreading a virus is a crime. You know that. As I said in anothe post, I think in this same thread, the computer you're infecting and the person you're allerting the FBI to may be someone else who is working on piracy prevention. Or a student could do this at a school, and the school pays the price, not the student. Self-defense is tracking down the IP addresses of offenders and reporting them. What you suggest is merely striking out blindly. Bored now. On to another topic for me. Phoenix