thankz ShagDevil, that helped a little. and phaza...i would block the port, but i have all the computers in my house on a network....(my uncle says it's needed for that)....is there any real risk of anything dangerous happening?...cuz just recently one of my computers desktops was defaced by someone using the handle "blue cipher." and that was while i had zone alarm running.....pleez continue to help....thank you very much.