Now I just got an email from the Norton Antivirus program that's on the Hawaii State Department of Health system telling me I sent a worm-infested email to someone on their staff, whom I don't know. (Pedantic note: that's not a typo--viruses infect, parasites infest!) The explanation is that I also got the W32.Klez.H@mm worm in an email the same day from somebody I know in Honolulu. Both the DOH person and I were undoubtedly in her address book, and I know that worm uses random addresses in the "from" field on the emails it sends out. (This one had the subject line "Hi! Japanese girl VS. Playboy" or some such.) It was a little disconcerting, though, to have a government agency thinking I'm sending them tainted emails. Oh, well, sent a warning to my friend and now I'm off to do a virus scan...

Aloha,
Mark