>>I recieved a forwarded email  from someone with the UPDATE Microsoft
>>patch virus.
>>The reason Im asking here is because as far as I know this place is
>>the only place Ive posted anything, and its a fairly new account.
>>There was a long list of email addresses enclosed in the forwarded
>>mail, many of these had the address  @neis.cr.usgs.gov   which seems
>>to belong to the Earthquake Hazards Program.
>>
>>can anyone add anymore info or figure out if its just I who is
>>recieving this mail?
> 
> I get that shit all the time. Using a "dumb" reader (Agent) is more
> than sufficient to take care of any worries about accidentally
> executing the thing. But using Norton Systemworks to scan my incoming
> mail provides a very nice additional level of protection. It also
> scans my outbound mail to help make sure I'm not passing any virii
> ("viruses" for those of you in Rio Linda) along to others. Again,
> Agent pretty much prevents that from happening anyway, but the scan is
> a nice addition.
> 

Actually, "Virus" has no plural.

Therefore, it is up to the rules of the language in which it's being used
to determine how to pluralise it.

Hence, the plural of "Virus" (in English) is "Viruses"

http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html