Thats the sorta problem I was getting SC, on a dial-up its hell, 10mb or so of infected files a day is just not acceptable, so I figured it was better to just scrap the email address.

Good thing about using hotmail for a general purpose email address for friends / stupid email forwarders is that the worst amount of spam you can get and therefore need to delete is the small inbox limit, so it never gets too out of hand. The junk mail box picks up on the worst of it anyways, so most of the time I just have one or two to delete.