The United States Department of Energy CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability) maintains a site on Internet Hoaxes. I believe the information on this site is as reliable as you can find anywhere. Not only does it include information on specific hoaxes, it also has information on how to identify a new hoax. The URL is: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html Sandy Broda [email protected] Hopefully this will put an end to all this "virus hoax" business and let us all get back to searching for our roots. Cindy in Texas [email protected]