this sneaky little Badtrans virus infected me whilst I was reading all of your woes. Now I am clean BUT as I have a lot of mail marked as unread in my inbox most of you would have received a reply from _me. The steps I have taken to ensure the virus stays away are very simple. The virus is spread faster if you have your mail window pane open so that the message appears immediately.....I have closed mine. I have also changed my options to marking all mail as unread after 5 seconds. This means there will be no unread messages left in my inboxes. I don't understand why my virus checker which had just been updated not 10 minutes before the suspect mail arrived in my inbox didn't pick it up but did when I manually ran the mail program through my virus program. This one sure is tricky. The virus was located in Eudora(my mail program) Embedded\Sorry_ about_ Yesterday.MP3pif-Win32. Badtrans.29020worm. hope I haven't caused any one too many problems. The upside is...I had several advertising emails unread as well.....<G>