Needless to say I was rather disturbed when I started receiving nasty remove notices for an email I knew nothing about. Governments can pass laws outlawing SPAM but do they have people to enforce these laws. Spammers will simply get an account with an ISP in a country where no laws to control SPAM exist. Remove notices are often used to capture new email addresses which are then sold as part of some email list promotion. People who send SPAM really don't care if we are offended.
Some people take pleasure in creating and propagating viruses.
What can you do about it. To protect yourself from Viruses Always use a virus protection program. There are two types. Active and Passive. Passive virus checking requires that you manually run the anti-virus program to scan and detect for viruses.