At 01:44 PM 06/01/2000, Mike & Ginger Woodcock wrote: *************START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************* Jack, thanks for reinforcing what I sent some time ago about Aureate and the "phone home" problem. Yes, Copernic, as much as I love it, is one that will "phone home". Aureate has denied and denied that it's doing anything illegal, but, IMHO, anytime a program sends data from my computer to someone else, it's ILLEGAL! I've used OptOut since it first came out and swear by it. It keeps your system clean of those dreadful Aureate files. SgtGeorge Ok, I have a question about OptOut. I've taken a short look around the program. I might be missing something, but it appears to be a program that you must institute manually, say on a daily basis.. Am I correct. So, it would not run in the background like an AV program. g **************END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************** The default installation is to have OptOut load into memory and check your hard drive every time you start Windows. So, if you accept the default, OptOut will check EVERY time you start Windows. If you keep Windows running for days, you can always set up an icon in the Quick Launch, to click on and run any time you want it to run. I don't want it loading into memory, so choose to manually run it every few days. SgtGeorge