WATCH FOR SIRCAM SirCam is the nickname for a nasty little Internet worm that's arriving in lots of Inboxes. Over the weekend we've had hundred's of infected messages arriving plus reports from many Woody's Watch readers. So before we start this Office Tips issue of WOW, we'll take a moment to tell you what to look for. Sircam (full name W32.Sircam.Worm@mm) arrives either via email or it copied to shared network drives. The email contains a subject line including a file name from the sending computer. The subject and message body can be in English or Spanish. In English the message body will always start with "Hi! How are you?" and end with "See you later. Thanks." If you run the file attached to the email message the virus will spread via email in various ways and also copy itself to other computers on your network. In this latter way you can be infected even if you are good about checking / ignoring email attachments. The virus can also delete files on your computer, fill the hard drive to capacity and compromise your privacy (by sending a random file from your computer out to email recipients. You should update your anti-virus software then do a full scan of your hard drives and any network shared drives. If the virus is detected the AV software should remove it but you should also empty the Recycle bin and make sure your Autoexec.bat file hasn't been tampered with. For full details on Sircam and removing it check out ZDnet http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/hud0007500a/www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0 ,5594,2776123,00.html or Symantec http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html PLEASE READ THIS and my apologies uf you got it from me!!!!!!!!!! I have used this on my computer. Carla