It seems I've been struck by a trojan horse program. You may well have been sent a message that appears to have something to do with "messagemates" and with an attached file to open. DO NOT open this attachment. Get that message and it's file off your hard drive (put it in the "trash" and delete if from there even). Opening the attachment triggers the program and it basically seems to send itself to everyone in your address book. <sigh> I'm working on trying to clean up my machine. But thought I'd better warn as many as I could first. Here are two sites with more info: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.newapt.html and http://stuart.messagemates.com/notice.htm My deepest apologies. Doug