Hello All, My spouse and I have just come from a weeks holiday and received an email dated 19 May from Karen HILL, Listowner of Kent rootsweb mailing list, asking me if I sent her an email with an attachment Virus A IE 6.0 patch. I wrote to Karen saying I was on holiday when the Virus attachment was received by her, this is Karen's reply. After we "spoke" yesterday I checked the attachment and headers more closely. It was .bat file and a .pif file and I think contained the Klez virus. this particular virus falsifies a senders address from addresses stored within an infected computer's address book(hope that makes sense). Funny enough, later yesterday I had an Is return a mail to me, purporting to be from me, that contained a similar attachment, which I didn't send. My AV is up to date and like you I am very wary of attachments. Karen My message to you all is, if you are sent an attachment that you are not expecting, even from someone you know, contact them to ask what the attachment is about. These Virus are playing all sorts of tricks to get you to open the Attachments. DON'T. TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS welcome to the list and please make your computer safe, have you got an Anti Virus Protection programme, if not get one, there are various reliable makes Norton and McAfee are good, I have had experience of both. Keep your Anti Virus Protection up to-date at least once a week, also do a weekly BACKUP of your computers files, if you delete a file in error you can restore it from your back up and if you happen to have the Virus by opening an Attachment you can restore your files in the computer once your computer has been cleaned of the Virus. Best wishes Barbara Mallyon Basingstoke, Hants, UK BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk Listowner