It is my understanding this is a worm. Earthlink sent out bulletins. It is active on Outlook Express and Explorer. JACK WIGGINS wrote: > This thing is weird. One of my neighbors forwarded an email to me where > someone had called Norton about it(Virus?). It claimed that Norton said > they knew of nothing of any such virus. An old Navy buddy sent me an email > and said it was stopped by his McAfee Virus program. Virus or not twice my > Norton has intercepted something which I quarantined and deleted. Is it > possible it attached to our GenWeb lists? I haven't been able to pin point > a source for this problem. If is is a virus then it came through on an > email someone sent who didn't have a virus scanner and was unaware of how to > handle viruses. > > I just play it safe. If my virus checker catches something I delete. I never > saw an icon on any inbound email for an attachment that may have been the > virus. Back in January I suffered for a crahes month due to my then McAfee > Virus > scanner not catching an incoming virus. The end result was two trips to the > Gateway Store and being out of service for about two weeks. Afterward I > switched > to Norton which I find to be a much better program. > > Jack > > =============================================================== > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 6:56 AM > Subject: [ARLOGAN] Re: ARLOGAN-D Digest V02 #105 > > > Thanks Jack, I've received a lot of emails offering a clean-up of this > > virus, most I've deleted, is that possibly part of the virus. Several had > a > > blue link in them, others had an attachment. > > Lynne > > > > In a message dated 5/5/2002 5:01:32 PM Central Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > > > > > > > Watch for a virus named; > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > pbgputtg[1.] 2.05 kb > > > > > > Source may be: lanevictoryship.com that has sent by emails information > > > about a restored WW2 Victory tours. You may not have to open it for it > to > > > attach to your outbound emails. Look for the attachments and delete the > > > email. Although I didn't open it I did read the email on the Victory > ship > > > restoration a few days back and deleted the email. Today I received a > > > rejection notice on an email from a server that I did not send to. > > > > > > Jack > > > > > > > > > > ==== ARLOGAN Mailing List ==== > > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the > > Logan Co., AR list, use > > [email protected] or > > [email protected] if > > you are on the Digest list. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== ARLOGAN Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain > letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal > messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be > grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett > [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237