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Michele, I'm using Avast now, too. I used to be a Norton customer, but my laptop crashed several times a day when it was installed.

Val, my past experience with an email-toxic virus is as you describe -- it raids the MS Outlook "Contact" folders.

THIS time, however, it was DEFINITELY coming from faked-out email identities of MarketingProfs members that I've never communicated with offline (with one exception). I recognized their identities as recent posters on KHE, though.

i use AVG version 7.0 (beta) form https://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ the Current version is 6 but 7 is REALLY GOOD. This comes with a scaner that plugs in to any email program.

also online scanner i find is from www.pandasoft.com they update hourly and have a little advertising when you finish the scan but it is small.

shelly was it to your gmail account? or another account?

Carl, I did not receive any infested email TO my gmail account, but another KHE member received an aliased email FROM my gmail address.

(Golly, if martians were reading this, they'd have a heck of a time understanding what I just said!)

Hey guys,

thanks for all the info. You guys are the greatest. I can't think of a better group of people in all the world. Hey Shelley, it's time for you to get your beauty rest...I heard Hillary might be running for president in 2008 and I want you to be ready. We've got about 3.5 years to get ready for Hillary and you remember that "Virius Alert" outfit she had on in that cartoon website you saw her dancin' in. We might be able to use that to snuff out her whole campaign. All this talk about viruses is makin' me tired. Good night Shelley...good night John boy.

Your Personal Servant, Deremiah, *CPE,