I got the following letter from a mailing list coordiator. I just added the name to my address book and hope it works! Shelley This is probably a tad off of what you are speaking of but along the lines of preventing virii from sending mail to all the addresses in your address book as Outlook Express is highly vulnerable of doing: To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your email address book with the name :** !0000 with no email address in the details. This contact will then show up as your first contact. If a virus attempts to do a "send all" on your contact list, your pc will put up an error message saying that: "The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please check your Address Book and make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address." Your messages to an individual or individual addressees will not be affected. You click on OK and the offending (virus) message would not have been sent to anyone. Of course no changes have been made to your original contacts list. The offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in your "Drafts" or "Outbox" folder. Go in there and delete the offending message. Problem is solved and virus is not spread. Try this and pass on to your email contacts. The more people that use this technique, the less vulnerable we will be to viruses that spread in this manner! Tim -