Hi all: Got this from the CC mailing list for WIGenWeb. Thought it might help us prevent the spread of email viruses. It will keep those viruses that infect your computer from reaching beyond your email program to others and from infecting you as well. These are the instructions I received. They will do nothing to your computer but will, hopefully, keep them from getting infected by the latest viruses: 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! If we make it more difficult for these things to spread then maybe the little pimply faced *** creating them will have to find something else to do for fun. Debbie Barrett County Coordinator Pierce County WIGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/