At 05:51 AM 5/17/01 -0400, you wrote: >Maria, >I checked my mailbox and I didn't get any mail from you or the Chatham list >on May 16th. >Susan > >In a message dated 5/16/01 10:13:10 PM, [email protected] writes: > > >Hopefully your programs already caught it and it won't be a problem. My > >system is cl > Hello :-) Hopefully we won't have the virus problems within our list members here on the Chatham list. I'm on a couple of lists through yahoogroups and the viruses are making the rounds there! I hope everyone has a virus scan program installed on their computer. These newer viruses are extremely sneaky. In case you don't know how they work, here's a very simple explaination. Someone unsuspecting receives an attachment on an email; they open the attachment and .....BAM...the virus invades their computer (this is if they DONT have a virus scan program installed and current!) These newer viruses get into the address box of your email program and they find a message and 'attach' the virus to an old message and send it out to everyone in your address book. You don't even know it is happening until someone writes to you telling you that YOU"VE SENT THEM A VIRUS_INFECTED ATTACHMENT! Let me be very clear in stating that these viruses do NOT come in through a mailing list such as rootsweb. Rootsweb does not allow attachments in the emails so there is no way they are coming in through a list. They are getting into the computers of the members and then being sent from member to member through the address book of the email programs on your computers. Until these viruses are cleared out completely, I would advise NOT opening any attachments without positive proof that the sender did actually send you something in an attachment. Even if one comes into your computer, as long as you don't OPEN the attachment, you are safe. On one of the lists at yahoogroups, it's been a mad house. I received a total of 19 virus-infected attachments in one day alone! Thank goodness for Norton Anti-Virus. Like I said the new viruses are sneaky. They will take this very message and use the same subject line and you will think you are just receiving another email from that person's private email address. However, there will be an attachment and if you will scroll down to the end of the message you will see this written : >Look to the attachment This is a dead giveaway that it's a virus!!! Delete it immediately and you'll be okay. Regards, Nancy E Parr---Hostess