Hey, been asked to sort out my folks laptop, so I know nothing of its past etc. I noted your thread and thought this maybe interesting, Their email address keeps getting mail from the "mail demon" notifying them that their mail (that they did not send) was not delivered to the address because it contains something that could be a virus. The mail does point out that the virus attached is called "sm3song.mp3.scr", but the fun doesn't stop there, however easy it may seem from this point doesn't cut it. As I said they get dozens of these mail, and each one says a different name; Humour.mp3.scr, hamster.mp3.scr, sm3song.mp3.scr... the most frequently used one is sm3song.mp3.scr. The email account, by the way they use outlook express :-(, is set up for two different email accounts, the one a simple POP3 account through freeserve, and the other (that I don't understand) through something called freezone, where their website for my mums business is hosted, and also works as a server for her mail. Going back to the mail demon messages; they only represent addresses (from her contact list) who have sent her mail through the freezone account that she has not yet replied to. If any of this seems to be familiar to anyone please email me at Sanity_not_vanity(a)hotmail.com I thought maybe the virus is on the freezone server as apposed to the laptop, also note, the virus does not seem to be doing anything destructive, nor does it show when I do a complete scan of the hard drives using the latest versions of PC cillin antivirus. Andy.