Ok.. just got this from ABCNEWS.com. The virus IS real, it's widespread in europe (as of early this morning) and is creeping into the US. It's particularly bad for the 3d arts community becuase it intentionally goes out and searches for jpg images and replaces them with a copy of itself. (doh). It uses the smae tricks as the melissa virus by sending itself to everyone in the microsoft outlook address book. (good deal I use eudora :P ) For more information check the ABCNews news story at: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/virus_000504.html - Console Cowboy