Good Day, Tuesday, January 3, 2006, 12:59:22 PM, you wrote: GE>> The "patch" by Ilfak Guilfanov works, but by disabling a DLL in Windows. PV>> I wouldn't say it does that. If you really want to simplify it in the LS> extreme, it hides the vulnerable function. LS> Think of it as a "White Hat Rootkit" Or merely a TSR hooking an interrupt vector. It doesn't hide itself. It doesn't allow any kind of remote access to anything. I can't see how it could even be remotely described as a rootkit. -- Best regards, Pierre mailto:pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx