Very worthwhile repeating! See below! In addition: be sure to have yer AntiVirus software [AVs] as up-to-date as U can! Update often! At the same time realize that this still is not THE 100% solution!!! There were a number of days since the appearance of the "B" variant of BADTRANS that the major AV providers did not have all bases covered! For instance: McAfee only provided a "complete" solution yesterday around 12:40pm... < and was/is misleading its users by suggestion that anyone above DAT 4168 was/is "covered"... *U* NEED TO BE ON YER TOES! Do not simply rely on your socalled "protection"... IT too < the AVs> can fail, or be unprepared or worse luck, be misleading! !!! This seems to be the hardest message to get through to users of AV software. As always, ;j. Jay W. Meeuwig ----- Original Message ----- From: "RootsWeb Review" Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 8:09 PM ======================================== > > STOP SPREADING VIRUSES and WORMS > CLEAN UP YOUR COMPUTERS -- YOUR GENEALOGY DATA IS AT RISK > > Free Online Virus Scanner: > http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/ > > Use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or 5.5??? > Be Sure You Have This Patch: *** > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp > > Viruses, Trojans and Worms: > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/virus.html > > ======================================= Footnote from jwm: For Microsoft IE users; *** THERE IS NO EXCUSE for NOT having that patch applied!!! < or better yet , move up to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 , which will be maintained in the highest priority by Microsoft. >