[Ronin]

To make this whole situation even worse, he (the French teacher) apparantly downloaded a "CD-Burner" program and installed it without scanning it.

If I were a nasty-minded programmer in league with the RCAA, this would be just the kind of booby-trap I would leak onto KaZaa as a way of sticking it to the music pirates.

[celtic gal]

One problem we are having on my husband's email address is that we get notices that a msg that has been sent from his addy is sending a virus, usually the SoBigF. I have Norton Antivirus 2003 and Internet Security and have this computer set on just every protection you can think of with Norton. And I keep it updated and run the antivirus program daily and sometimes more often during times like these.

The addys that are getting blocked are people we don't know and are not in our addy book. So I sent out word to everyone in my husband's address list asking if we have ever sent an email to them with a virus warning and all have said no. What I think has happened is that someone he emails to has not kept up the with the antivirus updates and got the virus that took all the addresses in that persons address list and is sending out msgs with our email addy but it is not from us. I have done the full scan etc and my machine is clean. So when you addy is grabbed from someone's address list and is now being used this way, how do I get that stopped? Should we just change the email address and notify everyone not to use is and to delete it from their list? Will that do it?