Thanks Nelson, AOL's mail is "home grown." You are entirely correct about those infected NOT knowing about it, but passing it on. It is sad that folks won't spend abt $9 to get an Anti-virus program (and run it daily). In the 1920s & 30s we could leave our homes without locking the doors now we not only have 1 to 3 locks per door/window but we also have Security Monitoring from Westec/Pinkerton. Sad but we must treat our "On-Line" computers the same way. An LA Times writer (Larry Magrid) publishes the "Tech Times" once a week on Thursday. Yesterday he confessed in his article that he open an E-mail exactly like my examples last week and infected half of the PCs on his "list" before someone notified him. LLoyd McDaniel Costa Mesa, CA