I have been using PCs since DOS 3.1 days, and this is the *first* time that I have been infected with and am guilty of spreading a virus! Whatever you do, do not open any strange-looking attachments in messages that you may have received from us today (4/20). If you have, and you executed it and saw a dialog box saying "File data corrupt", then you are infected. The gritty details: The virus is known by Symantec as W32.Badtrans.13312. It will run itself when your system boots and reply to all the messages in your default MAPI inbox, thus spreading itself (we never knowingly sent those messages!). Here is how to get rid of it. If this is too techy for you, get someone to help: 1) Edit the C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI file and delete the line that says "RUN=INETD.EXE". 2) Reboot 3) Delete C:\WINDOWS\INETD.EXE, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\HKSDLL.DLL, and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERN32.EXE. If you have trouble deleting the files because they are "in use", then you'll have to boot to DOS mode and delete them from there. Again, I am sorry to have perpetuated this virus. It was only discovered on 4/11, and I did not get the latest anti-virus updates until today, after I had been infected. Since I never open these types of attachments, I am really wondering how our PC got infected in the first place. I will continue to investigate this issue as well! Doug Gordon gordonwd@home.com