Hello, everyone, Apologies if you see this more than once. I am "elnalexjoe" and folk who know me on these lists will know me as Eileen in Hampshire. They will also know that I would not send any request for authentication with any "malice aforethought". I will explain to you what I think has happened. I downloaded a free trial spam blocking programme from the internet but it was too time consuming to set it all up so I decided to delete it completely from my computer. I have just checked again this morning and it is not listed in my programmes so as far as I am concerned it is no longer there. Why all these messages have been sent out to everyone in my address book - I just do not know as I have not activated anything and the programme does not exist on my computer, well, not that I can see. Hopefully, it will not happen again - or perhaps someone very knowledgeable about computers may be able to tell me where this "deleted" programme may perhaps be lurking on my machine. I am sorry that some folk seem to have been upset by this but I did smile as one of the messages to someone in my address book was responded to by a programme which does exactly the same thing! Hopefully, the show is now over, Thanks, Eileen in Hampshire. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com