Nancy, I hate to bust your bubble, but check this site out: http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBMalCode.shtml#bang0000 It states: I was kind of hoping that this one would die of its own accord, but no such luck. While not really false, this list of instructions does not really help you prevent infections and could fool you into being careless. For the few worms that remote control your Outlook application, this would tell you that you had already spammed the world with who knows how many worm infected e-mails. For the current crop of worms that spread via e-mail, which contain their own internal mailer, this would do nothing. Your time would be much better spent installing a good antivirus program and keeping it updated. Remember, don't run attachments that you were not expecting to receive, even those that appear to have been sent by a friend. Verify them first with the friend before running them (assuming you really trust the friend). And Taylor, if you have managed without address books, I'd continue without them - makes like simpler in the long run. (but still keep an good anti-virus program up to date.) Shalane