Dear List Members, Please do not send VIRUS warnings to the lists. Send them to me. Although, Lisa's warning is a true virus warning it should have been addressed to the personnel in her address book, not a rootsweb list. It is impossible for a virus to be carried through Rootsweb.com and sent out to the people on a list. Viruses need somewhere to hide. Rootsweb.com does not allow the use of anything but plain text messages; this gives a virus NO PLACE TO HIDE. That is the reason rootsweb.com does not allow attachments or the use of any thing but plain text. It is primarily for their and your protection. A Virus can look like it can from a list but, again it can not. By all means, go to your virus protection url and run an update and check your systems. It is imperative that you keep your virus protection up to date. have your system active and scan for viruses often. I update daily and run my Norton's daily. But then I am on the net about 10 hours daily. Lisa, this is in no way a slap on the hand, it is much better to let everyone know then to tell no one. But, please everyone send the notice to me, I can then check it for reliability. Make a judgment and send to the correct places. Always send a message to everyone in your address book though, for they could very well be infected. Nelda Percival List Manager From: "lisa" <lach@prime-online.com> Reply-To: BEATY-L@rootsweb.com To: BEATY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BEATY] virus please ready!!!!!!!!!! Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:22:56 -0400 hi all of you are infected with a virus.....it's a virus that thousands of people have and are getting, and it also brings back the snow white virus......why these people make virus' is mind boggling........anyway, I thought I would tell you how to rid of it. You are in my address book and it has attached itself to your computer via my address book, I got it the same way, I was in someone's address book and gave it to me.........Your virus will not be detected with a virus scan.......here is how I got rid of it, and have included all instructions..........you must email your entire address book and forward this message so that people can clean this out before their computer crashes. I lost all data, most collected over a 5 year period 3 weeks ago and am still devestated over it. Thanks and sorry about the virus but I don't want it comming back to me again.......... Lisa ps there is no virus attached to this email I have gotten rid of it.......... here's what the the tech guy sent me, pretty detailed email......... Lisa, these are the e-mails from friends who also receive the SirCam Virus. There are a few tools you can use especially the Sircam Removal tool, but you still must check your autoexec.bat. The SARC Reference seems to work best. Lisa, 1. If you open the e-mail, it then attaches some file from your 'My Documents' and sends it to everyone in your address book and every contact that might be in your InBox (like forwards from other people). It then buries itself in your registry and hides itself and does the same thing over and over again everytime you start up an '.exe' file. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.removal.tool.html This is where I went to get rid of the virus, because I didn't have my viruschecker up to snuff 2. A new Windows E-Mail virus has been reported by members, arriving with the subject line named for the attached file (which contains the virus) and a body which usually consists of three lines. The first and last line are usually: Hi! How are you? and See you later. Thanks The middle line is usually one of the following: I send you this file in order to have your advice I hope you can help me with this file that I send I hope you like the file that I sendo you This is the file with the information that you ask for OR this text could arrive in Spanish. The attached file may appear to be almost any kind of file, but will have a hidden extensions that makes it a Windows Executable. This Virus will likely arrive from someone you know, because it mails itself to everyone in the Outlook address book of an infected computer. Please be extremely wary of all file attachments. The McAfeee Page for this Virus is http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/sircam/default.asp?cid=2360 3. Unfortunately you can't simply remove the virus by running the virus scan - you have to manually alter your autoexec.bat file and your registry, otherwise the worm stays in your machine. You can get full instructions on the Norton Antivirus site. (This step may also be necessary I hope this gives you the needed information. ........Larry ==== BEATY Mailing List ==== "We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue alone can we arrive at so tremendous a secret." -Symmachus, 384 C.E. Check out the archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/Beaty ============================== Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp