I have Zone Alarm installed and it pops up asking if Distributed COM Services should be allowed to access the internet. I have been telling it no. I updated IE from 5.5 to 6.0 yesterday afternoon. This morning, Zone Alarm asked if DCom should be allowed to act as a server? I told it no and went looking on the internet to see what it was. It sounds like it is part of Windows and removing it on an NT/2000 system will disable the OS. It also reads like maybe you can rename it on W98 and not have any repersussions. I am running W98 se with all patches applied. Anyone have any experience with this program? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bobby Herring The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com