Creighton Dement recently received a virus mail that appeared to be from me. I know that my address is on somebody's infected computer, since I regularly receive virus mail bounces from random servers. I have taken all reasonable steps within my knowledge and power to ensure that that infected computer is not mine. I run ZoneAlarm firewall and AVG antivirus, and do occasional manual checks of my registry for unwanted DLLs, BHOs and startup programs. I rarely send attachments, if I do, they will be innocuous formats such as .jpg or .pdf files. If you get a message from me with an attached executable, such as a .exe, .pif, or .scr file, assume it's not from me. Almost all viruses read address books, but I'ven never of one that adds addresses to it. Therefore, I assume that Creighton's and my own address had been added to the address book of the offending machine in the normal fashion. This argues fairly strongly for a seqfan or math-fun subscriber with an infected computer. Maybe math-fun and seqfan should require a certain level of virus protection from their subscribers. Just a thought. -------------------------------- - David Wilson