I suffered from system unstability due to some growing Outlook Express message.. some trashes like these with *.eml and *.nws keep occuping my HD space and causing mt puters to warn me that space is very milited to run any further action. I tried to scan the HD with Norton with no avail... some are in Poser ( but I don't think they are virus from the program ) . all the eml and nws use the filenames I used, and I have no way to delete them all as everytime I delete the eml and nws, they keep growing again. I have to give up. also a file call riched20.dll in win98 and win200 systems are strange as it claims to have eml extension. Are my puters infected by virus unknown to Norton ? I can't delete my Poser 4 ( 4GB ) as it contains some valued files from r'osity. Please enlighten me how to del with such dilemma. Merci.

yep fraid you're losing everything right now, this sounds just like the virus I had a couple of months back, I had to scrap everything, format the harddrive then reinstall everything again. This nasty little virus has infected your virus checker as well, that's why it can't see anything wrong. Rob

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yes this is a virus. I had it I run win XP pro. to remove it in xp any way. do a search for the files one at a time. x.EML and so on. once the scan stops select all in edit do not use the mouse click and drag or you activate them. after selecting got to edit again and deleat. the rich20.dll is the sorce of the viri. you have to deleat them all. make sure all downloads to your puter is set to question as all the files dl more to your system. after you have deleated all of them and emptied the trash. reboot with your net connection disabled first then disconected. if you missed some of them you will get a networking error. bypass this and search again deleating all you find. next go to system volume info deleat all but the most recent one. search when nothing found reboot then to vol info again dleat all but the latest one. last but not least. save your config after your reboot with out net conected are error free. nother file to look for is desktop.ini there should only be one in the windows dir. this virus creat thousands of them and every dir you enter with them in it it redls the virus and you start all over again :/ I wish you luck getting rid of this, it took my tec 13 hrs to totaly clean the system of it. but far beter than a week or two to reinstall exverything after a reformat. hope this helps laters Vel

wish you'd been around a couple of months ago Velen ;)

Thanks for all the info, at least I know they were nasty virus, that's why I don't use Outlook. :( I just found I got 2,000 of them for *.eml in my win2000. very bad boy who made the virus files.

Sounds like a REAL [deleted string of nasty words] virus and a total pain to get rid of it. Very good reason to NOT use outlook express. If the nasty bad boy that wrote that thing gets caught he can be looking at fines and federal time that start at 10k and/or 10 years and go up from there, that also includes loss of computer, everything attached to it and all the software he has, paid for or not.