Good Afternoon, Tuesday, January 3, 2006, 9:28:40 AM, you wrote: GE> The "patch" by Ilfak Guilfanov works, but by disabling a DLL in Windows. I wouldn't say it does that. If you really want to simplify it in the extreme, it hides the vulnerable function. The patch was, imho done precisely to avoid disabling the dll, and because disabling the dll wasn't necessarily successful in all cases. -- Best regards, Pierre mailto:pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx