Guys,

If you receive an email containing the words "I Love You", delete it immediately. It contains sentiment and emotions that you will find hard to deal with. It is likely that by opening and reading the contents of the mail you will feel nauseous or be overcome by the desire to hide. Dr Solomon has warned that this is far from a hoax. Thousands of emails are sent like this every year. Many are sensibly deleted with no more than a cursory glance, but many are read completely. The intentions of the email are far from benign, and quite different from any previous virus or worm. Rather than making it hard to use your machine or deleting files itself, it tries to get you to do it. There are reports of men who have read one of these emails and as a result been forced to play less computer games. Others have had to remove files from their hard-drive, in particular emails from other women and all those JPEG files downloaded from that Dutch site.

Please be warned: there has never been a more serious computer-based threat since the "Let's Go To Paris" email.

A friend.

Ladies,

If you receive an email containing the words "I Love You", delete it immediately. It will just be a cheap and obvious attempt to get a blow- job.

A friend.