I continue to think spam can’t get any more confusing or annoying, and yet it continues to confuse and annoy me. Case in point: today, not ten minutes ago in fact, I received a fake virus warning. “A letter sent to you was infected with a virus,” it says. “It was deleted. Below are the headers of this message and information from the virus scanner.” This didn’t come from my virus detection software, though, and I’m quite sure there is no postmaster at unreality dot net. Maybe someone tried to send a virus using a faked e-mail address and my domain name, but overall what I received looks suspiciously like spam since it, too, comes from an address I don’t recognize. Which begs the question: if you’re not selling or promiting something, and you’re not sending a virus, a link or something else, what then is the point of spam?