[quote The reason for this is that many mail servers have been quarantined especially at the university and corporate networks. Techs are working hard to weed out all the bad mail and only delivering some mail. This of course slows down all email traffic but does eliminate much spam too. [/QUOTE] Swap, Would this have anything to do with why, when my wife sends me an email from work(FedEx), it goes directly into my Deleted folder in Outlook Express? Also, it can take 6 hours or more to even get here. Is there anyplace where I can assign her one address as being 'OK...let this one through'? Bastiaan, Thanks for the virus program. I got it, ran it, and it found 2 virus bugs and deleted them. It's now running, and if it doesn't seem to mess with PT performance, it will stay running. thanks, Roy