In a message dated 7/13/06 2:39:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dmj@fractalus.com writes: garbage onto the net for everyone else to deal with. And there won't be any more patches, as Microsoft has officially ended support for it. Keep it disconnected from the net entirely or make sure it's behind a thick firewall Hi listfolk, um. I don't really have much choice. Can anyone recommend a way to see IF a win98 se machine is sending out junk at the behest of someone else? If I can find something that alerts me to 'zombie' use, maybe I can keep things to a minimum? I'm using avg's free antivirus, and it's filter, trojan hunter and it's 'guard' (the guard, i'm told, isn't very good, though) and spybot, and run Advanced System optimizer with those when things start to drag or hang. Thanks for any assistance, peter S.