As webmasters, we all have to put up with email worms and viruses, but just how much are you willing to put up with, and how much are you willing to give up to do away with some of it? Unbeknownst to many webmasters, many worms actually search through the browser's cache looking for emails, so the more infected computers' caches your email address appears in, the more worms you get. I've known webmasters who got over a gig of mail per day.

Most webmasters try turning to their providers to get rid of the worms, but that can be an infinite task for the providers and many won't even try it. They'll just tell you it is your email, so you have to put up with it. Even for providers that do filter some emails out, it is hard for them to get all of it without getting many legitimate ones, too. So, filtering is not always the best way to eliminate worms.