PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS ADMIN POST HERE ON THIS LIST!!!!! If you wish to discuss anything in the post, please email me at my personal email address!!!!! ========================================== RootsWeb is seeing a lot of infected email since some criminals released the worm W32/Mydoom@MM [McAfee's name for it] aka WORM_MIMAIL.R [Trend's name for it] aka W32.Novarg.A@mm [Symantec's name for it]. As a reminder, RootsWeb's Mailing Lists do NOT and can NOT transmit e-mail that has viruses/worms/trojans in the body, since RootsWeb's anti-virus program catches all such infections. Also, RootsWeb will not forward email to the Lists if it contains HTML in the body. RootsWeb will NOT forward email to the Lists if the email has attachments. That said, let me caution that you MAY receive infected emails, or emails that have infected attachments, that APPEAR to be from a Mailing List. Let me assure you that such emails are NOT from RootsWeb. These infections "spoof" (fake) the From: addresses by searching through the infected user's computer, looking in Address Books and email residing in the user's email program. When you receive such infected email, just remember that it is NOT from the address in the From: header. There is no need to notify the supposed sender that he/she is infected, since the email was NOT from him/her. You may also receive email from some ISP saying your email could not be delivered to so-and-so because it contains a virus or worm or trojan. Just ignore such notifications. Someone with an infected computer has your email address in his/her Address Book, or has email from you in his/her email program, and the infection chose your address to put in its From: address. Please check your anti-virus software. For more info go to: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html or http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?cid=9451 (And, having an anti-virus (AV) program installed will do you absolutely no good if you don't keep it updated with the latest virus information files. Nowadays, most makers of AV programs are putting out daily updates. I am now using Panda AV Platinum and it updates daily. You should have YOUR AV program configured to automatically update on a daily basis. If you don't want to do that, then you should manually check for updates daily.) SOME INFO ON CHANGES AT ROOTSWEB: In addition, RootsWeb has undergone significant modifications to its domain name lookup and IP addresses, and from their perspective this seems to have happened without incident; however, there may be consequences external to RootsWeb's network. What has happened is that, for technical reasons, RootsWeb has had its DNS addresses changed from 207.40.200.* to 66.43.18.*. This may cause problems for some of you in that your ISP may reject List mail until their servers recognize the new addresses. I think most problems have already been cleared up. IP addresses are the underlying methodology that computers use to identify and talk to each other on the internet. While most ISPs will only store (cache) RootsWeb's IP addresses for short periods, some ISPs may retain RootsWeb old details for an extended period. With regard to e-mail, it is also possible that e-mail to and from RootsWeb may be delayed until the changes have spread (propagated) throughout the internet. Also, where RootsWeb has had some mailing list servers placed on a "white list" with ISPs, these arrangements may need to be renewed, with the consequence being that Rootsweb may not be able to deliver e-mail to all ISPs at this time. AOL has been bouncing all mail from the lists (now why am I NOT surprised at that?) and there may be more affected ISP's as the day progresses. The folks at RootsWeb have been working for the past two days with AOL and others to ensure that their servers accept the new DNS addresses. Thanks for your attention! George W. Durman List Admin