Most of these messages come from people like you who are using Outlook Express, but don't have the common sense to not open attachments, run an anti-virus program or keep it up to date.
Typically all the info that would be used in tracing the origin of the messages is spoofed, so it's not going to do you a lot of good.
All you can really do is what you've been doing. Just making sure you're not contributing to the problem by deleting the messages when they get to you. Maybe some day someone will come up with an effective countermeasure to spam, but I don't see that day happening any time soon.
Hi,
I'm running windows Me (boo hoo!)and have Outlook express 6 as my mailbox. I have an internet conection with Ntlworld (my local Cable company) and in the last year have been receiving about 20-30 mails a day from many anonymous email addresses and sometimes from people in my address book which contain the latest versions of Viruses. The one that I receive daily (about 30/day) is the Netsky worm. I ofcourse delete the offending mail straight away. Norton spots it every time and my computer will freeze periodically if I leave the mailbox open because of the loser sending me millions of these viruses per day.
Is there any way that I can trace this losers ISP address or even better who he/she is and where they live so that I may report them.
If you have the book smarts to help me ...please do so!
I will need the instructions as simple and jargon free as possible as I am a functional computer user but not a Dos pro, I have never tried the hacking thing so will need you to be patient with me when writing your instructions.
Thanks in advance,
G.

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