Dave, can you post (or send me) the headers of one such message?
maybe I could shed a light to where they are coming from.
(that is, if they are not sent through open proxies)

Regards,

Robi
-- 
for email contact regarding the headers:
ROT13: Ebov <e_ohrpuryre@ubgznvy.pbz>


"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