In addition to the helpful advice to scan for viruses regularly, I'd also strongly suggest that if you must use *certain programs that are distributed with one particular operating system*, that you turn off your preview pane. Some trojans and viruses are written in such a way that they can deliver their payload even if only previewed since these *certain mail clients distributed as part of that operating system* can execute code in previewed messages. Other mail clients, like Pegasus for instance, will not allow this. It might be worth a little hassle to learn a new mail client that isn't a bullseye for blackhat hackers. regards, Beth sitting pretty in virtually virus-free Linux land... No root for you! -- /\/\ Beth Johnson / o o\ Cosmic Wonderer ( / ^^\) Springfield, MA USA \ M_M/ "Ruling a country is like cooking a small fish-- you have to handle it with care."--Lao Tzu *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html