I am the original chain-letter end-of-the-road! My sister in law does forward lots of really good ones, but I'm pretty selective about which are worthy of going any further -- and then, I usually only send on to one daughter and my own sister. Usually the raucous ones like the toilet paper roll made out of cheese graters hinged together, or the 3 Dollar Bill with Michael Jackson's face on it...:)) My boss sent me one last week about the family with the newborn baby with leukemia, and AOL is supposedly tracking the number of times it is forwarded and making donations to the baby's family. Well, not only has this silly thing been floating around for over 3 years, but how the heck does AOL find out that somebody with a Yahoo address sent it to somebody with a MSN address??? I will confess though -- my latest post on the Conversations board was one from the brother in law who is a pastor. No replies because it's too stupid to have forwarded, or just because y'all didn't see it? Susan

Didn't get one from a forum person, but one of my friends had the same thing happen to her. Her son let her know and told her what to do to fix it, but she's been busy letting her contacts know she didn't send them anything. Luvs

IF you don't use it I would totally disable the features for it in your windows live. I don't use the IM features or any of that stuff in my hotmail so it is all disabled and I do not take any requests period.

I don't think 6 years is bad for computer life. Technology changes so fast that many change computers often even if nothing is wrong with the old one. But, have you had the computer looked at? See what it would take to have it fixed? We have a desktop system that is very rarely used. Hubby has a laptop and I have a netbook. I love my netbook (small laptop). I like Apple products. We both have Iphones and I use an Ipad. However, at work we use Dell and MS programs. I also do hubby's contract work bookkeeping, some of which goes on to the accountant. The accountant uses MS. So, no Mac for us. My dad is crazy over his! I don't think though that you have to go with a Mac to avoid virus problems. You don't open email attachments unless you know what they are - right? I'd be curious as to where you're picking up the virus.