Please, please go to Symantec's Hoax site before posting these bogus warnings http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html Symantec publishes the Norton Anti-virus products. Scroll down the list of known hoaxes until you find "Slavemaster". Click on it. The text reads as follows: Slavemaster Reported on: September 28, 2001 Last Updated on: November 29, 2001 at 12:42:09 PM PST Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern. Type: <A HREF="http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/refa.html#hoax">Hoax</A> Description: This is a hoax. The hoax is similar to the following: Subject: State Police Warning! Message: To my friends that I care about, what happens to them. Please read this and pass it on. VERY SERIOUS! Our homeoffice has informed us that they received this bit of information. Read this very carefully....then send it to all the people online that you know. You DO want to pay attention to this. If a person with the screen-name of Slavemaster contacts you, do not reply, do not talk to this person; do not answer any of his/her instant messages or e-mail. Whoever this person may be, he/she is a suspect for murder in the death of 56 women (so far) contacted through the Internet. Please send this to all the women on your buddy list and ask them to pass it on. This screen name was seen on Yahoo, AOL, and Excite. Send to everyone. Ladies this is very serious.