[QUOTE] Not really. Two of the worlds biggest spammers are in Australia. Because even with a real OS you still need to DOWNLOAD the shit. It should be server side filtering so that the customer doesn't have to download the virus. When SoBig.F started up I was hit 300 times in 48 hours. That's a lot of downloading.[/QUOTE] Doesn't your ISP offer a web interface option? Bigpond does, though I haven't really used it. Hotmail and Yahoo do too. You simply select the spam messages and delete them. No downloading needed, except for the headers. Very useful for outbreaks of crap like the current. Furthermore, both Hotmail and Yahoo shunt spam automagically into "junk mail" folders which you can simply empty with one "click". (Mind you, they still let a minor amount of stuff through to the real Inbox too. But you can select all that with a click too, then another "click" and it's gone.) I suspect you can do something similar with the Bigpond web Inbox, but they don't seem to have a"junk mail" folder as such. Incidentally, Yahoo has an interesting ploy dependent on this junk. In the past few days the junk has exceeded the allowable 4 MB of space and a notice comes up suggesting you *pay* for an increased allowance. This notice obscures the mail list for the Inbox, and it doesn't seem possible to clear it directly (though I haven't really tried that hard :). However, it is overwritten by the list for the junk mail folder when you open that, and stays cleared when you then go back to the Inbox after deleting the junk. Cheers, Phred.