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I get them at the rate of a few per hour......continually.

They don't go beyond Mailwasher...

Can you post a link for Mailwasher...never heard of it

http://www.firetrust.com/home/index.php
There ya go! Great program, would never be without it - all spam and potential viruses deleted at the server

MailWasher is a must in my book!

Thanx for the Link....Will play with it after work today...hopefully it works well with Earthlink software

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4224954/

That is an interesting article that is semi-related to this thread.

That attachment is the MyDoom virus, if you've opened it (in Windows) then you are almost certainly infected. This is the Microsoft help page for removing it:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/mydoom.asp

If you can't get to the Microsoft site it's likely that your hosts file has been used to redirect their site to somewhere else (probably the local loop 127.0.0.1) If this is so and you don't know how to edit hosts, ask away.

Generally never open an attachment unless you know the mailer *and are expecting a file from them*.

regards, Jerry

that isn't spam it's a virus!!! For goodness sake don't open it. It's MyDoom.

oops....didn't read all the posts first...knee jerk reaction. Sorry Jerry