Friends, Please take the time to go through your ADDRESS BOOK and delete anyone's address to whom you do not regularly write. YES, the names of the ones who've been infected will appear in your very own address book. That's the way the virus spreads...it writes itself into your program and then does it's dasterdly deeds. As you go through your address book, right click on each name that is not familiar to you. A dialog box will appear with the email address. Check to see if their is an underscore before the name, for example: _ldkd95@skyenet.net. My correct email address is ldkd95@skyenet.net . Do you see the difference? If there is an underscore at the beginning the address delete the entire address and run your virus scan program again. The virus writes itself into your addressbook and will continue to do so until you delete it. Since Friday all messages from this list have been clean. This viral infection began around 11/27. I am most certain the people did not intentionally start this so please do not publish partial names. If their problems have been one-tenth what I've gone through, their aggrevations do not need to be broadcast worldwide. It's Christmas and other religious celebratory time again. As a head's up... the MerryChristmas.exe is going around again. Now, guess how I know that one has surfaced! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season. Now, go tell someone how much you appreciate them. Kay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur L. Davidson" <adavidso@columbus.rr.com> To: <DAVIDSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 10:01 PM Subject: [DAVIDSON-L] virus > Hi Mary Anne::::::::::I got a "Coffman1" e-mail on 11/27, which was addressed to my personal e-mail address. Had a > subject of (Davidson-L)Emma/Arthur/James Davidson, Va>WV, 1850-1900, which was a query that I placed about two years > ago, but, without the names 'Emma' and 'Arthur'. My name "Arthur' must have been picked up by the virus program. I > omitted the prefix underscore symbol, sent an e-mail to the address, and, it was not returned by the ISP server, but, I > have not gotten a response from Coffman1. Please describe your e-mail particulars. > > Arthur Davidson >