This blanket email demonstrates the "cunning" of the hacker. There are a couple of ways to do this, at least. One is to create a false header made to look like it came from Norm, and fooling the system into thinking that was the true source. Another, more sinister way, is to have Norm's computer actually generate the messages, which means that his computer, and now some of ours probably, is infected with malicious programs of some form or another. I'd recommend everyone make sure that your virus software has the latest signature files loaded, then check every thing (system files, memory, and everything on any drive). It might take a while, but it's worth it. In addition to virus software (we use F-Prot)) there is a good free program for clearing junk files called Ad-Aware. By the way, I received this same e-mail from several different sources. Lucky me!! Do hackers make good mulch? I'd rather be gardening Dave Brastow