Well, I guess I'm not the only one, then. During the past couple of weeks, I've felt that checking my e-mail was sort of like one of those Fifties science fiction movies where the space ship blasts off for Mars and the first thing that happens is they run into a meteor shower that just about destroys them. Almost every day, one of the e-mails that comes in (invariably from someone I don't know and including an attachment) invokes the Norton AntiVirus screen with the red banner, "VIRUS ALERT!" NAV immediately quarantines the thing. I delete it from the in-box, then zap it from the quarantine folder, and all is well again. One that has come in several times within the past week has a different "From:" each time, the "Subject" line says something about an update, and the attachment is "IE-6.bat" or some variation thereof.

What gets me is that this has happened almost every day during the past couple of weeks, and one day, four times! Is someone out to get me specifically, or has it been happening to everybody this often?

I use Outlook Express and I update NAV frequently. So far, NAV has nailed everything as it tries to come through the door, so it's no sweat, just a lot of irritation. Normally I'm a peaceable person, but I'd like to get hold of the moral mouth-breathers who do this sort of thing, break their goddam necks, wait till they heal up, then break 'em again!

Don Firth