Ray, You got me there... I should have thought it through. The problem does exist at work because the way the pbx works - but who at home has a pbx? I stand corrected. DAVe > > Ray, > > I feel the way you do about urban legends. But this tale is > > _not_ a legend. I work at Intel, and the Information Technology > > folks there recently verified the reality of this scam. > > DAVe > > Nope. Sorry, check out http://korova.com/virus/hoax980212.htm. > Bottom line is that if you run a PBX system that uses #90 as an opening to a long > distance line, you may have a problem. Otherwise you don't. > > >