Odd that it doesn't give full details, but it appears to be simply one of many jeru.1808 viruses, possibly a jerusalem derivative, (and that's going back a while :) Bit of a risk there Dodger, and while I don't doubt they talk up the danger that a good many viruses out there pose, some of them are very smart and very dangerous. I'm just waiting for something to latch onto the distributed spyware rings, like brilliant digital, etc. That could get nasty. Then of course there are things like the, currently theoretical, "Warhol" virus, (so called becuase it could infect the whole 'net in 15 minutes, no joke, I've seen the math.) Just out of interest what do you use for an OS, browser & mail client? later jb