Hi, An "idiot" that caused $4.4 billion worth of damage........that would constitute a good piece of espionage at the end of the day, in anyone's book. Unlikely that an intelligence service would write a virus so slick (and so difficult to trace) that it was obvious it was written by an "expert" from an intelligence service.....why not just do the damage with a 'piss-simple' VB script? Besides, that way, Microsoft get more bad publicity so everyone is pleased ; ) Dan