He changes the "joke" so that someone's system who wasn't catching it - might think it is a new joke. One time is was "SnowWhite and the X-rated dwarfs" and another was her "Birthday" joke. The email (have only seen brief glances thru preview frame... have never seen the whole email - obviously) starts out with something like:
"Snow White comes of age." or "The dwarfs yadda yadda yadda..." It is TEXT... and a few times has text to encourage the reader - like: "THIS IS REALLY FUNNY... you have to see this!"

BUT IT ISN'T THE "SAME" email time after time going around (they may go around and around - I'm sure they are)... but at Christmas it was a holiday joke... this person takes the time to keep the virus moving. You can not "reply" to the sender (comes back unable to deliver or whatever) and I have turned this into my server, but I don't think anything came of that.

HAHAHAHAHA changes his email address slightly so "blocking" his emails only works for a while... every so often he adds an extra HA and becomes a new sender. I can't believe he can't be "traced"... but I don't know where to submit that. Norton and them MUST know of this... I can only assume the sender has somehow found a way to elude tracking.

Concerning "DATS" - in case anyone is wondering and not wanting to ask - DATS are just DATA FILES - some have a .DAT extension - but not all of them. They simply attach data to an applicable file/ program. Right now there are over 50,000 viruses in the Norton data file.