Flak, Thanx for the confirmation. I deal with these situations differently if it turns out to be some sort of personal vendetta as opposed to an inadvertently infected machine. mateo, Contrary to your opinion of SE Asian ISPs I've already been contacted by 2 of them, confirming that the emails were sent from their service, apologizing for my inconvenience, & promising to forward the information to their respective customers. :-) jumpstartme2, I'm not aware of any virus that has been constructed specifically to target Eudora. Usually they are designed to take advantage of flaws in MS products,(& yes I consider a default setting of "launch all attachments automatically" a serious flaw :-)