Hi, Charles, I know it wasn't your fault and I'm sorry you got hit. I'm just thankful that I kept current with my Norton Anti-virus! These ever-so-brilliant hackers need to get a life .... and a hobby. Like exploring their family trees - at the local zoo! One more reason why we MUST keep our data bases, etc., backed up, right?. Anne C. ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Gibbins <Gibbins@prodigy.net> To: <GACOLUMB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [COLUMBIA CO.] Badtrans virus again. > Hi Anne, > > I really don't know what happened or how it happened. I think I received an > infected message from one of my correspondence and my mail started doing > many funny things, one of which was showing "Charles Gibbins" as the sender > of ALL my incoming messages. Not knowing what else to do, I just deleted my > Prodigy program entirely and then reinstalled it which seemed to fix the > problem. I had not sent any recent messages to GACOLUMB-L, but suppose the > virus picked up the address from my address book. My system seems to be > running OK now and hope I haven't caused too much trouble. It was entirely > unintentional. > > Charles >