Below is part of an E-MAIL from Volaris who owns Digital Express and many other small internet companies.. The reason I am posting this message is that IF you receive e-mails from me or anybody else, I or they, might not have sent it. because the virsus will take addresses from the infected computer and use them as sending address so that you can't determine where the virsus came from.. E-mails were being sent using Beverly Douds's email address as the sender when her computer was in the shop... The best protection is to invest in a Virus Program that will check your incoming and outgoing mail for viruses.. because some viruses will open themselves when you receive them and infect your computer without you knowing it and you didn't open the attachment.. Thanks!! James =================================================== B. E-MAIL VIRUS - KLEZ WORM SQUIRMS ACROSS THE INTERNET A new E-mail virus, called "W32/[email protected] Worm," was discovered spreading across the Internet at a moderate rate beginning in mid-April. Although it is not necessarily destructive, it can be very annoying. Here are a few of the details: *The W32/[email protected] E-mail Worm appears to have been created in Asia and was first discovered on April 17, 2002. *The W32/[email protected] E-mail Worm grabs e-mail addresses from the infected computer's Windows address book or ICQ database and sends copies of the worm to each of the e-mail addresses. The worm also disguises the actual source of the e-mail by randomly selecting e-mail addresses from the Windows address book or ICQ database to be shown as the "sender" of the e-mail. So, if you receive the e-mail worm from a friend, chances are the person it shows being sent from is probably not the person who actually sent it to you. *The "Subject Line" of the e-mail can include variations of 120 possibilities. Common subject headings include the words "let's be friends," "some questions," "meeting notice," "congratulations," and "how are you." The worm selects the wording randomly. *Not only does the e-mail worm copy itself and get forwarded to other e-mail addresses, the worm also randomly copies files (including confidential documents) from the infected computer's hard drive and forwards this information as an attachment as well -- using randomly selected file extensions like ".txt," ".doc," ".mpg," or ".html." In other words, the worm normally sends two attachments with each e-mail message: the worm itself and a copy of a document found on the infected computer. *The text section within the "E-mail Message Pane" can either contain words (randomly selected and varies greatly) or can be empty. *The virus infects only Windows operating systems. Using caution and common sense when opening e-mail attachments is the best recourse to prevent the spread of e-mail viruses. Remember not to open any attachments, even from friends and relatives, unless you've first verified that they sent them to you. We also encourage our subscribers to utilize anti-virus scanning software and to download updates frequently to lessen the possibility of computers being infected by e-mail viruses.