I am self taught and ask my grown kids what to do when I have problems for those as 'skilled 'as I am under message on my outlook is create rule from sender and block sender, works real easy and that trash is gone. Alicia ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginger Smith" <wildred@midwest.net> To: <BIRD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 4:51 PM Subject: [BIRD-L] Fw: [TheTexasPeon] Important Info....ANOTHER VIRUS IS OUT, ALONG WITH THIS ONE...Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL Story > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Texas Peon > To: *TheTexasPeon > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:43 AM > Subject: [TheTexasPeon] Important Info....ANOTHER VIRUS IS OUT, ALONG WITH THIS ONE...Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL Story > > > > > My Groups | TheTexasPeon Main Page > > > > A NEW ONE.........I received a message today with an attachment. The file name was Bill_Gates_Piece.jpg.pif. It came from someone I do not know and didn't have a subject. Since it came from someone I didn't know, I scanned it and came up with a virus named W95.MTX.dr. I sent the message back to the one who sent it to me and it hasn't been returned. The person who sent it to me may not have known that the message with the viurs was sent to me. These viruses just send out messages to people in your address book without you even being aware that they are being sent. Some viruses send to the people in your inbox. When you click on a message to read, the virus sends a message to the person who sent mail to you. > > I'm sure most of you are already familiar with the Snowhite message with the virus that is going around. I thought I would just send this to those of you who may not know. > > I receive this message on a daily basis...sometimes as many as 5 or 6 messages. Evidently, it is one of the viruses that sends itself to the people sending you mail. Since I send the jokes to the jokelist and my name is on the messages that are received, when someone, who has the virus, reads the messages from the list, a message with the virus is sent to me. I have scanned my system and came up clean. > > This is the subject line... Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL Story > > Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a *huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the Seven Dwarfs enter... > (Whoever is doing it sure is SHIT at spelling...lol) > > Some of the attachments have been joke.exe - Dwarf4you.exe - midgets.scr > One time it was in spanish and had an scr file attachment. > > I trashed them all without scanning or opening and tried sending the message back to the sender...no such address.......... as expected. > > > > ==== BIRD Mailing List ==== > If you are going on vacation you will need to unsubscribe. There is no "nomail" at Rootsweb. > > > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > >