That's interesting. I believe the "Info Systems" dept has been pushing updates of various kinds. We can only stop the antivirus (McAfee) for a few minutes, it automatically restores itself. Sorry for the late response, office Christmas parties and all you know.

>Any antivurus software running and upgraded recently? If so, try to stop the antivirus service and see what happen.
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>>I have an interesting dilemma. I have an application that on edit or add, connects to Oracle to verify accounting codes on input. Out of nowhere we start getting an "access denied" error when trying to create the Oracle cursor. I renamed the production exe and copied the source exe to the production directory. No more error and everything is fine. How does an executable get corrupted? Its another notch in my supervisors attitude that we need to dump VFP! Help...anyone