Hi Diana I do not keep any emails in the INBOX, except the ones arriving, which are then sorted into 'his' folder and 'my' folder. You stated that it was the unread email in "my inbox" - what of unread email in other boxes/folders? It would appear that this 'tricky one' beat the anti virus programmers as well.. I received my first from Phyllis on Saturday and another three on Sunday, but Monday and Tuesday were my worst days. Shows how many of my emails are kept but not read, eh?? See my email about 'deleted emails' for the effect on my program. Again, if anyone is waiting a reply from me, please send again. Lorrae Johnson Plainland Qld 4341 http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=helmrich -----Original Message----- From: Diana Burgess [mailto:nburgess@powerup.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2001 9:14 PM To: MIDMARCH-L@rootsweb.com; LANARK-L@rootsweb.com; NORTHANTS-L@rootsweb.com; SCT-ARGYLL-L@rootsweb.com; WESSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com; ENG-WORCESTER-L@rootsweb.com; AUS-QLD-SE-Germans-D@rootsweb.com Subject: To All From DIANA BURGESS I have infected many of you this sneaky little Badtrans virus infected me whilst I was reading all of your woes. Now I am clean BUT as I have a lot of mail marked as unread in my inbox most of you would have received a reply from _me. The steps I have taken to ensure the virus stays away are very simple. The virus is spread faster if you have your mail window pane open so that the message appears immediately.....I have closed mine. I have also changed my options to marking all mail as unread after 5 seconds. This means there will be no unread messages left in my inboxes. I don't understand why my virus checker which had just been updated not 10 minutes before the suspect mail arrived in my inbox didn't pick it up but did when I manually ran the mail program through my virus program. This one sure is tricky. The virus was located in Eudora(my mail program) Embedded\Sorry_ about_ Yesterday.MP3pif-Win32. Badtrans.29020worm. hope I haven't caused any one too many problems. The upside is...I had several advertising emails unread as well.....<G> ______________________________