Hi Albert, As checks on my computer don't show up any virus (God willing), I have no real idea about where the bogus messages come from, but in trying to understand what could have happened, I noted the following from the last Rootsweb Review which makes me think some someone, somewhere on this list may have inadvertently picked up a virus: "Concerned about protecting your e-mail addresses from address harvesters and spammers in the Mailing List archives? Note that when you view a message in the Threaded Mailing Lists archives you see a normal e-mail address, but if you right-click anywhere on the page and select "view source" from the menu that appears, you will see that the e-mail addresses are encrypted and look something like: "uYT&#72." That is the source code that address harvesters see -- not the page as you normally view it. Addresses in the RootsWeb Interactive Searchable archives are displayed as dynamic pages created on the fly (as opposed to static permanent webpages) that are not accessible to address harvesting "spiders." These safeguards protect your e-mail address from harvesting by spammers as they do not take the time to gather addresses manually, which would be required otherwise." I guess the point is that the genealogy world is being targetted for spammers etc. Most annoying to say the least. Cheers Marionne