Just for the record

One of my friends contracted this virus, but my system has always been clean.

This virus is particularly crafty in that it remembers all the e-mail addresses that it has come across on an infected system and as noted above, spoofs the address. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it, except deal with the hate mail!

Make sure your virus protection is up to date and if you should contract it, go straight to the Norton site for the cure. This virus is well known now so an up to date virus checker should pick it up (mine did)

if there was something I could do to stop my address being used, believe me I would

Alex