According to a scan I did based from a link on microsoft.com there were no instances of the mydoom virus found on my home or work computer. however everytime i go to retrieve email through outlook express i get a ton of bogus emails with attachments and generic impossible addresses (i.e. - mike@yahoo.com). How can i stop these from flooding in. They are more of a nuiscance than anything. I just want my email back the way it was. It all started when my boss sent me an email the first day of the mydoom thing asking why he was sent an *.scr attachment. i didn't open it or anything but since then everything has been a mess. i've done every online scan i can think of and downloaded nortons and NOTHNIG is being found on my computer. How can i get rid of a problem that apparently doesn't exist? thank jay

If I understand correctly, the e-mails with virus attachments are being sent to your inbox, not being set FROM your computer to others. Well, I got good news and bad news. Good: YOU are not infected, others are. Your computer is fine. Bad: Once this nuisance finds your email address, it will flood you with these things. All you can do is ride out the storm unitl it subsides. Same thing happened with the BLAST virus of a few months ago, but it eventually dies away. I get them in my business email box also, Norton just kills them.

It is not you or your computer that is infected. Someone that had your email address in their address book was infected, and now the worm/virus is spoofing itself, resulting in all the mail traffic you are receiving. At the height of the spread of this worm 30% of the email traffic was infected. Just delete these emails. Do not get curious about the non-delivery, other bogus tricks that the worm is using to trick the unsuspecting user into openeing the attachment. My email traffic that has this worm seems to be beginning to slow down, so hopefully yours will too. Take care and all the best!

thanks guys

Hi Jay; Just to add to what the other's have written. The other thing you can do is use a filter of some sort to move these e-mails into a separate folder so that you don't have to actually see them or deal with them right away. You still receive them, but they are less of a nuisance, and it then becomes a case of mailbox management. I'm using one called K9, which seems to work quite well, and another one I heard about in a posting here, is Frontgate. Both are free, so you've got nothing to lose. Pat