Hello List!! :-) I wanted to pass this along to everyone, strictly so you will be on the lookout for these things. I, myself, received a total of 8 virus's just yesterday, all with different names. That's more than I have received in the past year, so this is a VERY SERIOUS matter. Otherwise, we would not be discussing it on this list. If anyone has questions about this, they can contact Norton Anti-Virus here www.symantec.com or they can reply to list mom privately at [email protected] DO NOT REPLY TO THIS LIST! The following is an excerpt from the Lists Adminstrators mailing list......I thought this would be most informative. AGAIN, DO NOT REPLY ON THIS SUBJECT TO THE LIST!!! (and don't send me any vrus', lol) Thank You, List Mom I think that it would be wise to pass information about this virus on to > any lists you own. > > The worm virus [email protected] was just discovered April 11th of > this year. If you have not updated your anti-virus definitions since > then, you need to do so. > > What this bad boy does is reply to all unread emails in your email > message folders, and passes on the infecting virus in attachments called > any of the following: > > Pics.ZIP.scr > images.pif > README.TXT.pif > New_Napster_Site.DOC.scr > news_doc.scr > hamster.ZIP.scr > YOU_are_FAT!.TXT.pif > searchURL.scr > SETUP.pif > Card.pif > Me_nude.AVI.pif > Sorry_about_yesterday.DOC.pif > s3msong.MP3.pif > docs.scr > Humor.TXT.pif > fun.pif > > If you have tried to open any of these attachments, you are infected and > must "disinfect" your system. If you are not comfortable handling this > yourself, contact your computer support person right away. > > Since the worm only responds to unread mail, after waiting 5 minutes, > until you are "cured," quickly open or mark all your currently unread > mail as having been read. If you have no unread mail, the worm cannot > send out any messages. (Note: This is not a fix. It is only a work > around to protect all the folks who contact you by email.) > > If you receive an email with this attachment, DO NOT OPEN IT. However, > please advise the sender that they are infected. Instructions about > what to do can be found at: > > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected] > > Remember: The key is UNREAD messages. > > It can appear that you are receiving the message from the list, if the > worm is replying to an unread list message. Since no attachements can > be posted to the list, thankfully everyone on the list will not receive > the worm carrying emails. However, list members are vulnerable, if > another list member, who is infected, leaves leaves unread list messages > in their message folders. Consequently, I believe it is important to > warn you about this worm virus. > > As always, I request that we not discuss the situation on the list. If > you have any questions, please contact me directly. Be sure to notify > anyone from whom you have received the attachments named above. That is > the only way they can know they are infected.<br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>