nebulus200, quite correct. One time a long time ago i wrote a little script to identify and post a visitor's IP on my webpage and called it 'sniffer'.... Within a couple days i got a phone call from my host wanting to know what i was trying to do. of course, he already knew, because of the text, but he told me to change the name anyway so his logs wouldn't pop up the exception for him to look at. i thougt that was kind of neat, and it did't bother me that he was monitoring his server activity to keep hackers off his customer list, i'd probably have been doing the same thing.