Tyler, assuming that your brother had proper security in-place and didn't touch that file, plus adding what PLR said above, then there's nothing you need to do and there's nothing you can do. Put simply, those who DDoS'd flooded the internet pipe until no valid traffic could flow along it, thereby cutting off the internet connection completely. As long as your firewalls were set up properly, they blocked the traffic from damaging your network, but literally could never have blocked the effective lockout that it caused. :geek: Just make sure to run an antivirus pass on that computer, okay? That's all the advice we can really give you, this time. :huh: ~D. V. "Unless their system is infected, we won't be able to help you, sorry." Devnull