As was previously mentioned, the infected user usually is unaware that they even have the virus. It burrows into your email program and begins sending copies of itself to whomever the user sends mail. The user does NOT know this is happening at all. The copies will bear the same subject as the last email sent, but the message will be blank save for a copy of the H99.exe. This virus was originally circulated around last New Years Eve...when you ran the originals, a fireworks display would erupt on your monitor in celebration of 1999. The fix is pretty simple. Just go to the website of your AV system and they have it here. jeff > What a turd. <shaking head in disgust> > > Hope he bites a Scotch Bonnet and blows his brains out. > > green -- jeff "10,000 people all screaming the same thing at the same time are wrong, even if they're right." dancing/about/architecture "...with wandering steps and slow..." ICQ904008