Hi Liz, Thursday, November 29, 2001, 2:15:06 AM, you wrote: acnc> Hi Anne acnc> You are wise to be cautious... I certainly didn't send you an email. I have acnc> only just joined the Roots web and have no Saxton relatives. The canal people acnc> I am interested in are Slaters and Fox. acnc> I did get a suspious email from an unknown about a week ago and it did contain acnc> a virus which was picked up by our current Norton Antivirus program. It acnc> therefore did no damage but perhaps it lurked around sending off the occasional acnc> email. You are the only person I have heard from on the subject. Just delete acnc> the dratted thing. acnc> Cheers Liz acnc> Quoting Anne <Anne.Nichols@ukgateway.net>: >> Hi Elizabeth, >> >> Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 8:35:05 PM, you wrote: >> >> EH> Can you confirm an email with attachment sent to me on the 26th Nov. >> please. >> EH> I have not opened the attachment, although I am looking for info on my >> grandf. Enoch Saxton. >> EH> Thanks. Betty Heath >> >> A post apparently from this, or any other Rootsweb list should >> NEVER have an attachment - as they are not allowed to reach the >> lists at all by the Rootsweb mail filters. <rest snipped> >> It wasn't me who received the e-mail with attachment.. it was Betty Heath (elizabeth@eheath3.freeserve.co.uk) and I was replying to her question about that mail/attachment which she seemed to think had come to her via this List, (see the part I quoted in my response to her above). I am very much aware of this current virus, having had several dozen copies of the wretched thing so far... mainly from subscribers to a couple of my surname lists sadly, but I have not been infected personally as they are deleted from the server when I see them rather than download to my PC. :-) -- Cheers, Anne mailto:Anne.Nichols@ukgateway.net ListOwner: Docwra, Dockery, Garton, Hampson, Schofield Message Board Admin: Docwra, Dockery, Dockerill, Dockrey, Dockrill, Garton, Hampson Webmistress: http://stop.at/canalcaholic