Hi It was not easy!!!! It had come from someone on these genealogy list. I spent 5 hrs today cleaning out my computer. The badtrans virus is not a trojan after all, it is a worm that goes thru your files. This is all because like a dummy, (when I should know better) I went and opened an attachment that I thought was 1841 census, I had asked about who had a copy of the census or where I could find an earlier census. I had 2 virus protections on my computer and I thought that if one was disable the other would work properly. Will it did not. And the Trojan remover that I downloaded was not able to remove the thing, but only change the file that was infected, so the virus was still in my computer. The file KERN32.EXE was changed to KERN32.EX$ and INETD.EXE was changed to INETD.EX$, which stopped the emails from going out, but did not remove it. Eventually it would worm its way thru your programs and gradually infect the files. What a job getting it removed, cost me 29.00 on the phone with a tech, actually 3 techs. Wore down 2 battery phones. Almost had a nervous breakdown, went without lunch and was dying of thirst and my ear is sore. So PLEASE everyone be careful of those attachments. Janet