I have v5.0 retail version. This procedure doesn't work for me. Gene At 06:14 AM 11/30/01 -0500, you wrote: >Open the Filters (Tools:Filters). Hold down the CTRL and SHIFT >keys and hit the "F" key. Type in TRASH. You'll see every filter >that sends emails to the TRASH Folder. Make sure you click the >"Find Next" button to see any other Filters that may be sending email >to the TRASH Folder. Once you've found the filters, either delete >them, or configure them the way you want them. > >SgtGeorge > >At 11:37 AM 11/29/2001, Margaret Olson wrote: >*********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >>At 10:31 AM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote: >>>OH ME... Last night I went to Tools>filters and deleted some of the >>>filters that I had in there. Now "everything" is going to the Trash >>>folder!!!! What do I need to do to correct this. Thanks.. >>>MaryClyde >> >>Examine all the filters which send things to the trash. You may be able >>to find the one or two which find something generic like To: >><youraddress> and are doing that. If so, you can fix the one or two. >> >>I think I'd start by creating a new mailbox called "TempTrash" or >>something like that and then change ALL the filters which go to the trash >>to go to TempTrash instead. That will retain the filters. You probably >>don't want to delete them all and start over. >> >>Margaret >> >> >>==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >>To unsubscribe from EUDORA-MAIL, send an e-mail message to: >> EUDORA-MAIL-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) >> EUDORA-MAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) >>Put only ONE word in the subject: UNSUBSCRIBE >>(You don't need to put anything in the body.) >> >>============================== >>Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >>Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >**********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********** > >==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from EUDORA-MAIL, send an e-mail message to: > EUDORA-MAIL-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) > EUDORA-MAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) >Put only ONE word in the subject: UNSUBSCRIBE >(You don't need to put anything in the body.) > >============================== >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library

For me, the easiest way is to go to http://housecall.antivirus.com/ and let them check and clean the computer. Just another soggy Seattle Sysop. -----Original Message----- From: Sylvia Gould [mailto:nade@gorge.net] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:59 PM To: EUDORA-MAIL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [EUDORA] Virus cleanout? I'm not sure it came from this group, but within the last 2 days there was an email with instructions for cleaning out one or more of the current viruses if infected. I apparently didn't keep it, and now have a friend who needs it. Can anyone help? Thanks. Sylvia ==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== You can contact the List Manager at: debala715@yahoo.com ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library

I don't have an answer for you especially, but I did hit Standby on mine once and it just went black. Nothing would bring it back, had to re-boot. This morning I asked the HP tech what the button was for and he said supposed to save power and come back when you touch the mouse or a key, Didn't happen. Haven't tried it again. Sylvia At 06:45 AM 11/30/01 -0600, you wrote: >I sent this message to the list a week ago and got no reply. > >Does that mean no one knows the answer or just that no one is available? > >Every time I use standby on my windows 98SE computer I can no longer >receive E-mail with Eudora. It tells me the connection was closed by a >foreign host. > >I am using v 5.1. Does anyone else have this problem, or know how to fix it? > >TIA Lee > > >==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from EUDORA-MAIL, send an e-mail message to: > EUDORA-MAIL-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) > EUDORA-MAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) >Put only ONE word in the subject: UNSUBSCRIBE >(You don't need to put anything in the body.) > >============================== >Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 >

I sent this message to the list a week ago and got no reply. Does that mean no one knows the answer or just that no one is available? Every time I use standby on my windows 98SE computer I can no longer receive E-mail with Eudora. It tells me the connection was closed by a foreign host. I am using v 5.1. Does anyone else have this problem, or know how to fix it? TIA Lee

If you're using Eudora (which I assume you are), and open those emails, AND if Norton DIDN'T catch any infections, don't worry. If you try to open them and the embedded code tries to run, you'll be asked if you want to "download" the files. Just click NO. SgtGeorge At 01:35 PM 11/29/2001, Sylvia Gould wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >I set up the filter for the "<_" designation on incoming emails. I find 2 >emails in the mailbox I made. I'm very curious to see whether they actually >have that included, as one is from the listowner of a list I've been with >for a long time. >However, I'm not absolutely sure they were scanned by my Norton before being >sent there, and I sure don't want to open them if not. Can't find any >information in Norton Help. Tried to Norton-scan the files, per their >instructions, and get an "illegal operation" every time. Tells me nothing. >Anybody with any knowledge on this? Thanks. >Sylvia G. > > >==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >You can contact the List Manager at: >debala715@yahoo.com > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT**********

Open the Filters (Tools:Filters). Hold down the CTRL and SHIFT keys and hit the "F" key. Type in TRASH. You'll see every filter that sends emails to the TRASH Folder. Make sure you click the "Find Next" button to see any other Filters that may be sending email to the TRASH Folder. Once you've found the filters, either delete them, or configure them the way you want them. SgtGeorge At 11:37 AM 11/29/2001, Margaret Olson wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >At 10:31 AM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote: >>OH ME... Last night I went to Tools>filters and deleted some of the filters >>that I had in there. Now "everything" is going to the Trash >>folder!!!! What do I need to do to correct this. Thanks.. >>MaryClyde > >Examine all the filters which send things to the trash. You may be able to >find the one or two which find something generic like To: <youraddress> and >are doing that. If so, you can fix the one or two. > >I think I'd start by creating a new mailbox called "TempTrash" or something >like that and then change ALL the filters which go to the trash to go to >TempTrash instead. That will retain the filters. You probably don't want >to delete them all and start over. > >Margaret > > >==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from EUDORA-MAIL, send an e-mail message to: > EUDORA-MAIL-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) > EUDORA-MAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) >Put only ONE word in the subject: UNSUBSCRIBE >(You don't need to put anything in the body.) > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT**********

Hi Gene, Mine had the in folder as the destination too but they were were going to the Trash folder for some unknown reason. I deleted all filters and started over. Everything's working ok now... Mary At 09:18 PM 11/29/2001 -0600, you wrote: >I just looked and also found some filters out of whack. The ones that were messed up had the inbox as destinations. > >Gene > >At 09:53 PM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote: >>Me again. I deleted "all" of the filters and then sent an email to myself and it came to the "In" folder, thank goodness. I believe that the problem started when I made the 1st filter "<_" . Thanks for your help... Now I need to go back and make filters again. >>MaryClyde >> >>At 09:33 PM 11/29/2001 -0500, you wrote: >>>Thanks Margaret... I think that I AM going to delete all of them and start over. I was looking through them and there are some that I didn't put there, and I'm the only one who uses this computer. I don't know how they got on there..Right now I have to be very careful about emptying trash... >>>MaryClyde >>> >>>At 10:37 AM 11/29/2001 -0600, Margaret Olson wrote: >>>>At 10:31 AM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote: >>>>>OH ME... Last night I went to Tools>filters and deleted some of the filters that I had in there. Now "everything" is going to the Trash folder!!!! What do I need to do to correct this. Thanks.. >>>>>MaryClyde >>>> >>>>Examine all the filters which send things to the trash. You may be able to find the one or two which find something generic like To: <youraddress> and are doing that. If so, you can fix the one or two. >>>> >>>>I think I'd start by creating a new mailbox called "TempTrash" or something like that and then change ALL the filters which go to the trash to go to TempTrash instead. That will retain the filters. You probably don't want to delete them all and start over. >>>> >>>>Margaret >>>> >>>> >>>>==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >>>>To unsubscribe from EUDORA-MAIL, send an e-mail message to: >>>> EUDORA-MAIL-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) >>>> EUDORA-MAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) >>>>Put only ONE word in the subject: UNSUBSCRIBE >>>>(You don't need to put anything in the body.) >>>> >>>>============================== >>>>Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >>>>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >>>>Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >>> >>> >>>==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >>>You can contact the List Manager at: >>>debala715@yahoo.com >>> >>>============================== >>>Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >>>Source for Family History Online. Go to: >>>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 >> >> >>==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >>To unsubscribe from EUDORA-MAIL, send an e-mail message to: >> EUDORA-MAIL-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) >> EUDORA-MAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) >>Put only ONE word in the subject: UNSUBSCRIBE >>(You don't need to put anything in the body.) >> >>============================== >>Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >>Source for Family History Online. Go to: >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 > > > >==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >You can contact the List Manager at: >debala715@yahoo.com > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237

Me again. I deleted "all" of the filters and then sent an email to myself and it came to the "In" folder, thank goodness. I believe that the problem started when I made the 1st filter "<_" . Thanks for your help... Now I need to go back and make filters again. MaryClyde At 09:33 PM 11/29/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks Margaret... I think that I AM going to delete all of them and start over. I was looking through them and there are some that I didn't put there, and I'm the only one who uses this computer. I don't know how they got on there..Right now I have to be very careful about emptying trash... >MaryClyde > >At 10:37 AM 11/29/2001 -0600, Margaret Olson wrote: >>At 10:31 AM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote: >>>OH ME... Last night I went to Tools>filters and deleted some of the filters that I had in there. Now "everything" is going to the Trash folder!!!! What do I need to do to correct this. Thanks.. >>>MaryClyde >> >>Examine all the filters which send things to the trash. You may be able to find the one or two which find something generic like To: <youraddress> and are doing that. If so, you can fix the one or two. >> >>I think I'd start by creating a new mailbox called "TempTrash" or something like that and then change ALL the filters which go to the trash to go to TempTrash instead. That will retain the filters. You probably don't want to delete them all and start over. >> >>Margaret >> >> >>==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >>To unsubscribe from EUDORA-MAIL, send an e-mail message to: >> EUDORA-MAIL-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) >> EUDORA-MAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) >>Put only ONE word in the subject: UNSUBSCRIBE >>(You don't need to put anything in the body.) >> >>============================== >>Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >>Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > >==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >You can contact the List Manager at: >debala715@yahoo.com > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237

Thanks Margaret... I think that I AM going to delete all of them and start over. I was looking through them and there are some that I didn't put there, and I'm the only one who uses this computer. I don't know how they got on there..Right now I have to be very careful about emptying trash... MaryClyde At 10:37 AM 11/29/2001 -0600, Margaret Olson wrote: >At 10:31 AM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote: >>OH ME... Last night I went to Tools>filters and deleted some of the filters that I had in there. Now "everything" is going to the Trash folder!!!! What do I need to do to correct this. Thanks.. >>MaryClyde > >Examine all the filters which send things to the trash. You may be able to find the one or two which find something generic like To: <youraddress> and are doing that. If so, you can fix the one or two. > >I think I'd start by creating a new mailbox called "TempTrash" or something like that and then change ALL the filters which go to the trash to go to TempTrash instead. That will retain the filters. You probably don't want to delete them all and start over. > >Margaret > > >==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from EUDORA-MAIL, send an e-mail message to: > EUDORA-MAIL-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) > EUDORA-MAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) >Put only ONE word in the subject: UNSUBSCRIBE >(You don't need to put anything in the body.) > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!

I just looked and also found some filters out of whack. The ones that were messed up had the inbox as destinations. Gene At 09:53 PM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote: >Me again. I deleted "all" of the filters and then sent an email to myself >and it came to the "In" folder, thank goodness. I believe that the >problem started when I made the 1st filter "<_" . Thanks for your help... >Now I need to go back and make filters again. >MaryClyde > >At 09:33 PM 11/29/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >Thanks Margaret... I think that I AM going to delete all of them and > start over. I was looking through them and there are some that I didn't > put there, and I'm the only one who uses this computer. I don't know how > they got on there..Right now I have to be very careful about emptying trash... > >MaryClyde > > > >At 10:37 AM 11/29/2001 -0600, Margaret Olson wrote: > >>At 10:31 AM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote: > >>>OH ME... Last night I went to Tools>filters and deleted some of the > filters that I had in there. Now "everything" is going to the Trash > folder!!!! What do I need to do to correct this. Thanks.. > >>>MaryClyde > >> > >>Examine all the filters which send things to the trash. You may be > able to find the one or two which find something generic like To: > <youraddress> and are doing that. If so, you can fix the one or two. > >> > >>I think I'd start by creating a new mailbox called "TempTrash" or > something like that and then change ALL the filters which go to the trash > to go to TempTrash instead. That will retain the filters. You probably > don't want to delete them all and start over. > >> > >>Margaret > >> > >> > >>==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== > >>To unsubscribe from EUDORA-MAIL, send an e-mail message to: > >> EUDORA-MAIL-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) > >> EUDORA-MAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) > >>Put only ONE word in the subject: UNSUBSCRIBE > >>(You don't need to put anything in the body.) > >> > >>============================== > >>Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > >>Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > > > > >==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== > >You can contact the List Manager at: > >debala715@yahoo.com > > > >============================== > >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > >Source for Family History Online. Go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 > > >==== EUDORA-MAIL Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from EUDORA-MAIL, send an e-mail message to: > EUDORA-MAIL-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) > EUDORA-MAIL-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) >Put only ONE word in the subject: UNSUBSCRIBE >(You don't need to put anything in the body.) > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237

I'm not sure it came from this group, but within the last 2 days there was an email with instructions for cleaning out one or more of the current viruses if infected. I apparently didn't keep it, and now have a friend who needs it. Can anyone help? Thanks. Sylvia

At 01:35 PM 11/29/2001, you wrote: >I set up the filter for the "<_" designation on incoming emails. I find 2 >emails in the mailbox I made. I'm very curious to see whether they >actually have that included, as one is from the listowner of a list I've >been with for a long time. >However, I'm not absolutely sure they were scanned by my Norton before >being sent there, and I sure don't want to open them if not. Can't find >any information in Norton Help. Tried to Norton-scan the files, per their >instructions, and get an "illegal operation" every time. Tells me nothing. >Anybody with any knowledge on this? Thanks. >Sylvia G. Quite a few messages will come through with "<_" in *one* of the headers. If your filter is to trap the W32.BadTrans.B@mm virus, use this instead: Any header boundary="====_ABC1234567890DEF_====" That line is unique to the virus. Pat

Following is a news article I found on CNet regarding the fact that Excite@Home may cease as early as tomorrow (Friday). If you use Excite@Home for your internet service, you might have to find an alternative ISP. If you find an alternative email address, and want me to take care of unsubbing you from your old email address and subbing you with your email address, just let me know. I'll be happy to do it for you. --Debbie Schnell Woolard List Admin ======================================== Finding a backup to Excite@Home By Margaret Kane and Larry Dignan Staff Writers, CNET News.com November 29, 2001, 4:00 a.m. PT http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-8010578.html?tag=prntfr The possibility that Excite@Home could block service Friday has forced cable companies to scramble to come up with alternative plans for their high-speed Internet access customers. Excite@Home, which filed for bankruptcy last month, said earlier this week that it could shut off its service to cable companies as early as Friday. Sources say Friday's potential end game was forced by creditors who are trying to get AT&T to raise its $307 million bid for Excite@Home. These bondholders fall later in the creditor food chain and are trying to salvage the best return they can, sources say. The squabble puts Excite@Home's fate with bankruptcy court Judge Thomas Carlson, who is scheduled to hear creditors' arguments Friday. Carlson will decide whether Excite@Home has the right to shut down its cable access service and, if so, how long the transition period should be to allow its partners to migrate customers to another network. In October, Carlson seemed to have sided with creditors, saying it would be hard to approve an AT&T purchase with griping bondholders. Analysts, however, said Carlson may not want to shut down Excite@Home and leave 4.1 million customers--not to mention cable partners AT&T, Cox Communications, Comcast and others--stranded. "What am I supposed to do with no access?" asked Blair Buscareno, a Bellville, N.J., high school computer teacher. If Buscareno, who subscribes to Excite@Home through Comcast, endures a long outage, he said he's likely to switch to cable's competing service: DSL. Sources say creditors are scheduled to meet Thursday with Excite@Home's cable partners, excluding AT&T, to try to work out an agreement to keep service going. Other creditors have argued that Excite@Home should shut down. "This isn't something I've created, and they've had time to work this out," Buscareno said. Faltering negotiations It didn't have to be this way. In September, AT&T agreed to purchase Excite@Home's assets, but that proposal faced strong opposition from Excite@Home's bondholders. That opposition led to a series of fruitless talks in which creditors demanded a higher price from AT&T for Excite@Home and Ma Bell refused to budge, said a source close to the negotiations. The source said some creditors have been advocating for a shutdown, but if they were faced with Excite@Home liquidation--a possibility that would result in a complete loss--or an AT&T bid, they would likely switch sides and back Ma Bell. An Excite@Home spokeswoman said the company is prepared to negotiate beyond Friday if it would mean uninterrupted service. A deal could also be worked out with a transition period of a "couple months," a solution that would enable AT&T and Cox, two companies that would be the most affected by outages, to prepare to migrate customers, the source said. In any case, an outage would be a big problem for some of Excite@Home's cable partners. Robert Martin, an analyst at Friedman Billings Ramsey, estimated that in the best-case scenario an Excite@Home shutdown could result in a two-week service outage for cable giants, and in a four-week to six-week outage in the worst-case scenario. According to analysts, AT&T would be hurt the most because it doesn't have its own network ready to take customers. That's why AT&T is bidding for Excite@Home assets, analysts said. Cox Communications would also have a lot of trouble since its broadband network isn't complete yet, and Comcast would likely face service disruptions. Charter Communications would have the easiest transition because it already has its network prepped for high-speed Internet service, analysts said. Backup plans Worries about a service shutdown have cable companies accelerating plans to build their own networks to keep high-speed Internet access customers in the loop. Cox announced Wednesday that it will use gear from Riverstone Networks and ADC Telecommunications to build its network faster. Cox had planned to have its own broadband network built by June 2002 but has since "moved up the timetable," according to a spokeswoman. The effect of an Excite@Home outage would vary for each cable company. Following is a look at how cable providers plan to cope with a possible shutdown. • AT&T Broadband: About half of its 1.37 million cable customers use the Excite@Home network, said spokeswoman Sarah Eder. In case the company does not win the bid to acquire Excite@Home's assets, it has been building an alternative network that would support those customers, Eder said. She would not discuss a timetable for that network to get up and running, but did say "we'll be able to migrate in a relatively quick fashion...It's not going to be months but also not going to be two hours." AT&T Broadband can migrate about 20 percent of Excite@Home customers to its own systems quickly if necessary, Chief Executive William Schleyer said Wednesday at the cable TV industry's Western Show convention in Anaheim, Calif. The remainder of AT&T Broadband's cable customers use the RoadRunner network. Although those customers won't experience an outage in Internet access, they could run into problems accessing content provided by Excite@Home. • Cox Communications: 550,000 customers may be affected if Excite@Home shuts down, said spokeswoman Ellen East. Cox has 780,000 high-speed Internet access customers, but 16 percent are on Cox-run or RoadRunner networks. East declined to speculate on what Cox would do as a backup plan or how long its customers would be without broadband. "There will be plans in place," she said, adding that executives were working on backup options Wednesday. "If there are any service disruptions, they will be short-lived." • Comcast: Spokeswoman Jenni Moyer said the company was "continuing to talk with Excite@Home and working to try and reach a resolution." She would not comment on the company's plans in the case of an outage. In a letter sent to customers, Comcast said it was working "to develop a Comcast-managed network" to provide service. The letter also gave customers phone numbers and Web sites for more information, and stated that the company would automatically credit customers' accounts for time without service. • Charter Communications: The company has been working for several months to set up a parallel network for its Excite@Home customers. Charter had 549,000 high-speed data customers at the end of the last quarter, about 20 percent of whom used Excite@Home as their service provider, spokesman Andy Morgan said. The remainder used Charter's Pipeline service. Because of legal limitations, Charter can't tell customers to switch to the Pipeline service, but it has been "notifying customers for about (a) month that there was high likelihood Excite@Home could shut down," Morgan said. "I think we're on the third round of letters." He said there are only a few thousand customers still using the Excite@Home service, and Charter has been working "around the clock" to get the Pipeline service up and running in all of its locations. Some locations, however, likely would not be ready by Friday. Customers who do lose service will be compensated with two free days of service for every day they were down once an alternative is up and running, he said. It's likely cable companies will have to offer freebies to keep customers happy, said Friedman Billings Ramsey's Martin. "There will have to be some sort of discounting and rebates." But that may not be enough. San Francisco Bay Area scientist Srikar Rao uses Excite@Home through AT&T. He said he got a letter from AT&T a few days ago alerting him to the possibility of a service outage. "If it's going to affect my access, that's a problem. AT&T just raised their rates a month ago," he said. "If the service goes down for more than a few days or a week, I'll think about DSL. But that takes time to install; it's not an easy decision." Whatever his decision, going back to dial-up service isn't an option, he said. "It's impossible (to go back). It's not one of those things you can get away with." Staff writer Tiffany Kary contributed to this report.

Check your Embedded folder in the Eudora_Mail folder. That's where the embedded "bad stuff" is being put - at least under my setup. Zone Alarm catches it before Norton does.

Mary, If you have a recent backup of your Eudora folder, you can copy the folder named "FILTERS' from backup into the Eudora folder and you will be back where you started. If you don't have a recent backup, you have now learned a valuable lesson of why backups are important. Mike At 11/29/2001 10:31 AM , you wrote: >OH ME... Last night I went to Tools>filters and deleted some of the >filters that I had in there. Now "everything" is going to the Trash >folder!!!! What do I need to do to correct this. Thanks.. >MaryClyde Mike Miller Roanoke, VA fmmiller@infi.net

At 10:31 AM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote: >OH ME... Last night I went to Tools>filters and deleted some of the >filters that I had in there. Now "everything" is going to the Trash >folder!!!! What do I need to do to correct this. Thanks.. >MaryClyde Examine all the filters which send things to the trash. You may be able to find the one or two which find something generic like To: <youraddress> and are doing that. If so, you can fix the one or two. I think I'd start by creating a new mailbox called "TempTrash" or something like that and then change ALL the filters which go to the trash to go to TempTrash instead. That will retain the filters. You probably don't want to delete them all and start over. Margaret

I set up the filter for the "<_" designation on incoming emails. I find 2 emails in the mailbox I made. I'm very curious to see whether they actually have that included, as one is from the listowner of a list I've been with for a long time. However, I'm not absolutely sure they were scanned by my Norton before being sent there, and I sure don't want to open them if not. Can't find any information in Norton Help. Tried to Norton-scan the files, per their instructions, and get an "illegal operation" every time. Tells me nothing. Anybody with any knowledge on this? Thanks. Sylvia G.

OH ME... Last night I went to Tools>filters and deleted some of the filters that I had in there. Now "everything" is going to the Trash folder!!!! What do I need to do to correct this. Thanks.. MaryClyde

Every time I use standby on my windows 98SE computer I can no longer receive E-mail with Eudora. It tells me the connection was close by a foreign host. I am using v 5.1. Does anyone else have this problem, or know how to fix it? TIA Lee

This is a follow-up to yesterday's email about this new dastardly virus. (I'm also sending BCC: copies to several Lists which I do not manage.) It is called "W32/BadTrans.b@MM". It is quite different from the original "W32/BadTrans@MM" virus. First, here's how it works. When a user becomes infected, the next time he/she reboots the computer, the virus goes through the user's email program and looks for unread emails in all the mailboxes. It picks some of these, makes a reply to them, and sends itself. Here's the kicker. It uses the infected persons email address as the sender, BUT it adds "_" (underscore) before the real address. The subject line will probably have nothing but "RE:" (nothing else). The body of the email will be completely blank. There are no attachments, so there is nothing to click. The virus is embedded in the body, with cute code to hide it; the recipient never sees anything but a totally blank message. (I'm adding this after I finished the email. I just discovered a problem when searching for FROM: addresses that start with <_. There is a problem with people who have their email program set to show both their name and email address in the FROM: header. If such a person is infected, mail from him/her will show, in the header, something like the following: "John Doe" <_johndoe@wherever.com> The FROM: element in the header you see before you open the email will show only "John Doe". That's a problem. Either set up a filter to divert infected emails to a separate mailbox, or make sure your system is COMPLETELY protected before you open or preview any more emails.) In addition, the virus tries to dig through the infected person's computer and send email addresses, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, passwords, etc., back to the writer of the virus. Anyone using OUTLOOK (not Outlook Express) will infect his/her computer if he/she merely OPENS (reads) or PREVIEWS the email. The email has no attachment to click to activate it; it is activated by opening it, by the hidden HTML code in the email. Again, the virus makes use of the ms01-027 exploit, which means that the virus can execute on READING or PREVIEWING the email from within OutLook - it is not necessary to double click on any attachment, since the email contains no TEXT or ATTACHMENT. The virus is EMBEDDED in the body, but formatted NOT to appear, thus you get a completely blank message if you WERE to open it, which would mean you are already infected when you open the email, IF you haven't done all the following: 1) Installed an Anti-Virus (AV) program; 2) Kept it updated with the latest data files; 3) Have your AV program configured properly to detect email viruses; 4) Downloaded and installed the MS patches for MSIE 5.01 and 5.5. The patch to fix this exploit has been available from Microsoft since May 16, 2001 !!!!!!!!!! Where to read the Microsoft Bulletin MS01-027, dated May 16, 2001, and links for downloading the patch for MSIE 5.01 and 5.5: <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-027.asp> Where to read about the W32/BadTrans.b@MM Virus: <http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/badtrans/default.asp?cid=2607> <http://www.messagelabs.com/viruseye/report.asp?id=86> Evidently, MSIE 6.0 is not affected, since all the patches for 5.01 and 5.5 were incorporated into it. But, to be sure, make sure you go to the Windows Update page and check to see which patches your system needs. <http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/> I have seen emails on some of the Lists to which I subscribe, where obstinate users absolutely refuse to install an Anti-Virus (AV) program. They claim they are intelligent and experienced enough to never become infected. NOT SO !!!!! This latest atrocity is being spread by some of these "superior" users. What users without AV programs don't under- stand is that they are doing all the rest of us hundreds of million users a great disservice. I'm tired of downloading dozens of messages every day containing this virus (and others). Someone else will have to provide the information for Norton and other AV programs, but here is what I know about McAfee: You must have version 4.x or later installed; You must be using the 4.0.70 or later engine; You must be using the 4172 or later data file; You must correctly configure McAfee to catch viruses in emails and downloaded files. Furthermore, IF you are using Outlook (not Outlook Express): You MUST not open suspicious emails, or preview them; You must look at the From: header; if it has an address similar to this, <_someone@somewhere.com>, DON'T open it; all the addresses of the infected persons will be real, except they will have the _ (underscore) in from of them. If you open or preview an infected message in Outlook, it's too late! You're already infected! One further thing. If you DO use an AV program, it is imperative that you check for updates often -- at least daily, and, with these souped-up virus versions starting to come out, 2-3 times a day wouldn't hurt. I was lucky. I used the McAfee utility to check for updates and downloaded the latest data file just hours before I started receiving the first bunch of infected emails. Many were not so lucky. Addition for Eudora users: Set up a filter that looks for <_ in any header; set it to transfer all such emails to a special folder (such as Infected-Email); make sure you also select "Skip Rest" in the second Action box; then move this filter to the very top of your filters. SgtGeorge George W. Durman