Luis Montes wrote: > > Amen Brother > Well, isn't this an interesting thread....... Granted, it's unconscionably irresponsible that a vendor's mail client would allow such behavior as to utilize a personal address book to mass-distribute a virus, but, that's another story. I guess what concerns me is the impact on this poor misfortunate who had so many groups/users in his/her address book. It concerns me even more when I note that Outlook variants read the lion's share of Internet mail, including postings to this (historically) *n*x-centric newsgroup. Taking note that many (most?) of us are still deploying client-based programs in the Windoze environment to serve up our applications; be it web browsers using IE (sometimes NS), and VB/Access, etc., it occurs to me that for the few of us who are devoted to client-side computing on anything but Micro$oft products for our personal tasks, there are 90%, or more who access our applications and are not so inclined. I think the only solace in this is that we know to keep our firewall rules and host access controls current, if we wish to be responsible. Keep in mind, the most popular browser really enjoys helping users forget the menialities of password control by saving their passwords for them on these client machines. Hope this gives some admins some useful thoughts to ponder. If anyone has any questions, please read my x-mailer on this and any past messages before-hand. Best Regards, Van -- ========================================================================= Linux rocks!!! http://www.dedserius.com =========================================================================