confirmed here. windows 2000 and ie with their latest service packs. as a side note, tested with mozilla. at first nothing strange seen (it even displays a message saying '1.html - file not found'), but when i select 'view/page source', it quickly crashes. bye, marlon. >>> "James Wolfe" <james@quicsolutions.com> 07/29 11:06 am >>> Overview/Description: In March of 2000, someone posted to bugtraq a flaw in the MS Outlook Express ActiveX control which allowed for "the reading of any file on the users machine." My guess is that MS, in an attempt to bugfix it, didnt debug properly and left the following new bug.