Hi List: Looks like we have another person with a VIRUS. E-Mail address is TOM @ sydtom@wnclink.com Patsy

Patsy McCoy wrote: > > Hi List: > Looks like we have another person with a VIRUS. E-Mail address is TOM @ > sydtom@wnclink.com > Patsy > Folks, there are so many of these being sent that you can hardly keep up with it. My advice is to call you service provider and tell him about them. They can actually block it by screening out the messages they are coming in with. You need to write down the EXACT message -- spelling, punctuation, capitalization and ALL. Then give that to them. But, NEVER open an attachment if you are not expecting it. If it is from a friend and you are not sure, save the message and write them back to see if it's OK. If it is not from someone you know DELETE immediately. Mary Ellen -- e-mail: mewexler@buffnet.net Sponsor: Okaloosa County FLGenWeb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~flokaloo/Okaloosa.htm EDGE/HARVEY family page: http://www.buffnet.net/~mewexler

I also received 2 e-mail viruses from TOM. Although I belong to several lists I knew this was not a name or e-mail address that was familiar to me from any of them. If you have been on the lists for a while then you pretty much know the old hands connected to them. Also when I looked at the attachment name it had a double extension (IE...just_thought_i_could_help.doc.pif). I immediately deleted it without opening. By the way, it came through the Pike County List. ___________________________________________________________ Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of. - Jacob M. Braude ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Ellen Wexler" <mewexler@buffnet.net> To: <ALPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [AL-PIKE] Virus > Patsy McCoy wrote: > > > > Hi List: > > Looks like we have another person with a VIRUS. E-Mail address is TOM @ > > sydtom@wnclink.com > > Patsy > > > > Folks, there are so many of these being sent that you can hardly keep > up with it. My advice is to call you service provider and tell him > about them. They can actually block it by screening out the messages > they are coming in with. You need to write down the EXACT message -- > spelling, punctuation, capitalization and ALL. Then give that to them. > > But, NEVER open an attachment if you are not expecting it. If it is > from a friend and you are not sure, save the message and write them > back to see if it's OK. If it is not from someone you know DELETE > immediately. > > Mary Ellen > > > -- > e-mail: mewexler@buffnet.net > Sponsor: Okaloosa County FLGenWeb page: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~flokaloo/Okaloosa.htm > EDGE/HARVEY family page: http://www.buffnet.net/~mewexler > > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > >

I was advised by another subscriber to share this information. I hope it helps some of you. Anyone who has your email address in their address book, and has a virus that sends out from the address listings, can send you that virus. It can't come from rootsweb, or be passed through rootsweb, but can pass from one individual to another. I use Norton's and keep it up-dated regularly. I have it set up to scan each message as it comes in. It has saved me many times from infection. Not opening attachments from someone you don't know is good advice, but it still will not protect you. I have received virus attachments from friends. They had no idea they had picked up a virus and did not know it was being sent out until I told them. Norton's caught the virus attachment and kept me from being infected. I feel everyone should have a good virus program and keep it up-dated. Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Ellen Wexler" <mewexler@buffnet.net> To: <ALPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [AL-PIKE] Virus > Patsy McCoy wrote: > > > > Hi List: > > Looks like we have another person with a VIRUS. E-Mail address is TOM @ > > sydtom@wnclink.com > > Patsy > > > > Folks, there are so many of these being sent that you can hardly keep > up with it. My advice is to call you service provider and tell him > about them. They can actually block it by screening out the messages > they are coming in with. You need to write down the EXACT message -- > spelling, punctuation, capitalization and ALL. Then give that to them. > > But, NEVER open an attachment if you are not expecting it. If it is > from a friend and you are not sure, save the message and write them > back to see if it's OK. If it is not from someone you know DELETE > immediately. > > Mary Ellen > > > -- > e-mail: mewexler@buffnet.net > Sponsor: Okaloosa County FLGenWeb page: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~flokaloo/Okaloosa.htm > EDGE/HARVEY family page: http://www.buffnet.net/~mewexler > > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 >

I have gotten the TOM virus twice. Suzanne