appreciate your reply Therealmaster. the brutus file was dloaded by me. just a brute force p/w cracker. just kinda startled me when it showed up with the eval. version of pest patrol, but nowhere else(program wise). ran PP again this A.M., now it doesn't show. had already deleted the file(like you said). none of my other AV or trojan detectors picked it up. hmmm. thanks again for your input. "if ya don't ask questions, ya stay stupid".