I am very sorry about the virus. I have cleand my system and offer this link to any who may have viewed my e-mail. If you are using outlook express and you have preview panel open, and you looked at my e-mail, you may have been bit. http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html This gives a good discription. The total things you must do: 1 delete the 2 lines in your autoexec.bat that have the file kak.hta listed in it delete kak.hta from the windows dir and from the statup dir Also, you must delete a registry entery as follows HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run/cAgOu or better known as: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run/cAgOu Also, the file that this resitry entry points to may need to be deleted. Mcafee did not take care of the registry and could not finish everything. At this time, I am unsure of how or when I got the virus. I appoligize again, and recomend setting security level on outlook express at the high level. Best regards, Giles