Unfortunately McGrath is right. I was sent the ILOVEYOU virus from an in-laws work computer--fortunately I had heard about it on the radio ten minutes earlier--but the message would have made me suspicious anyway since it sure as hell didn't sound like my wife's cousin's husband...but like most users I didn't know what a .vbs extension meant back then.

when the little dickheads (in this case petty criminals who were aparently trolling for psswords,) are realizing from this is that to make a virus really dangerous, it has to be believably packaged--what they call "social engineering". ILOVEYOU was a pretty primitive effort on that front, but apparently thats all it took.

Thanks for the list Amos.

Willie-O