> interested in. I've downloaded everything else, nothing ever identified > as > "blaster patch" or anything even close to it. Margaret L If you've downloaded everything, then you've already downloaded this, too, as part of the batch: http://tinyurl.com/is2b It's titled: Blaster Worm: Critical Security Patch for Windows XP and it's the version for 32 bit machines, and you probably have a 32 bit machine. :) Same url, without the tinlyurl compaction: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2354406C-C5B6-44AC- 9532-3DE40F69C074&displaylang=en Barb in Southern Indiana Zone 5/6 dorsettb@kiva.net Take nature's vagaries and pranks in stride. ~Ruth Shaw Ernst