I get a hell of a lot of email.

Most of my mail is trying to sell black market Xãn(a)x, but another large chunk is generated by computer viruses.

My computer isn't infected with any viruses, but computers that are infected send mail all the time. I can now recognize most of the virus-generated subject lines, and I'd like for everyone to be able to recognize them.

As you can see, each virus uses a variety of subject lines, they are usually conversational and they are composed to trick people into opening them. My favorite subject lines are "fake?" and "what's up?" from Netsky.E virus. 

I anticipate that the future holds a wave of even more cleverly disguised virus subject lines, such as "Here is the slideshow from Heather's wedding". "This converts photos to lame music videos, check it out!", and "Rob, can you open these files for me?"

A consequence of all these subjects being used by viruses is that real emails shouldn't use them. They are blacklisted. For instance, if I sent out an email with the subject "Private Document", or "spice girls' vocal concert", I can pretty much guarantee that it is going to be erased before anyone looks at it.

If you don't have an anti-virus program running on your PC, do the rest of the internet a favor and search your hard drive for these six files:

1. irun4.exe
2. drvsys.exe
3. FVProtect.exe
4. Drvddll.exe
5. wink**.exe
6. winlogon.exe

These programs are viruses.