Earthlink very kindly gets rid of those worm-laden things before I ever see them. You guys are talking about 100 or more a day? It has been perhaps a year since a message with virus-filled attachment has come into my mailbox at all... which is when Norton does its stuff. (I do get penile enlargement ads and solicitations for low mortgage rates, but that is what the junk filter is for.) I set the machine to autmatically open exe and pif and vbs and such as text files (you can also set the preferences to open them in your favorite graphics app... like something which went obsolete 10 years ago). This way, even if something should sneak by, it can't do anything. Anybody who uses Outlook Express for their mail program is due for a brain transplant. If there are no addresses in the book, even if a virus should get through and even if it should manage to convince DeluxePaint to make it work... there isn't anybody it can contact to brag about the feat. Carolly