Hello to members of all these newsgroups, I just received an e-mail message from a Patsy Collins (copy of message MINUS attachment appears below) and knew immediately that something was wrong as it had a double file extension. I saved the message to a floppy disk and scanned it with Norton and sure enough, the file is actually W32.Badtrans.13312@mm which is definitely a virus that has been circulating. Here is the way the message looks: Subject: Re: Sims family in Alabama (Lowndes and Pike, eventually) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:48:23 -0500 (CDT) From: "Patsy Collins" <patsycollins@surfglobal.net> To: <djsevert@ionet.net> 'Doug and Joyce Severt' wrote: ==== - Good Morning Colleen, and all the other Sims’ who posted - - Our Sims list should be active for quite some time while all of us with - Alabama Sims connections repost to answer your question. That’s good - though; it never hurts to put our information out again. I have 2 Sims - (maternal as well as paternal) lines that I’m researching in Alabama. - My maternal line begins with Waller Sims who married Mary Bradley in the - mid 1810's and settled as a farmer in ...' > Take a look to the attachment. Notice that the message is from Patsy Collins and it is said that Doug and Joyce Severt wrote and the next name is Colleen. I am Joyce Severt and I do in fact research the Sims family, but I have never heard of or communicated with EITHER a Patsy Collins or a Colleen through any newsgroup or personal e-mail. A word to the wise to anyone who reads this, NEVER, ABSOLUTELY Never open a file with a double file extension. Save anything you suspect to a floppy and use your virus program to check it for viruses. What a pity that otherwise talented people resort to this type of activity to get their jollies. I find them to be despicable! Sincerely, Joyce Sims Severt -- "Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Visit our home page at: http://www.ionet.net/~djsevert Or The Annex: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2746