I've received several hundred myself the last several days.  I have no idea
how much legitimate E-mail has been bounced off my account.

  Its a good thing I check my E-mail several times a day, but its starting
to get annoying.

D.


"Dave Trapnell" <dtresearch@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:eii3nv85svkfks0k9so85fr6knmn901ck1@4ax.com...

Please scan your computers for viruses.

I have so far received more than a thousand Worm.Automat.AHB
viruses (viri?) in my inbox, They are sometimes coming in at
about eight or more per hour, and as they are more than 1/8
megabytes each, they are becoming difficult to manage, as my
inbox fills up and my legitimate email starts to bounce.

I don't know exactly how the virus works, so I can't say for
sure if someone downloads the group into Outlook Express,
whether the virus can find the email addresses contained in
the Usenet Postings, but just to be safe, if you have not
done so please update your virus definitions and scan your
computer(s), or use one of the free or one-shot scanners.

The definition for this virus was included in a supplemental
Symanted LiveUpdate that was released last Thursday,
9/18/03.

If anyone knows a way to determine the source of these
emails, please let me know.

This virus has its own smtp engine so if it is active on
your system, you won't see any results of its activity in
your outbox.

Thanks
Dave