The subscribers that were unwittingly infected with the W32.Badtrans virus and distributing it to ILHAMILT-L list posters have now cleaned their computers and the list seems to be virus free. This latest virus (W32.Badtrans) has plagued a lot of lists. You can find more info. on it at: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ Not much can be done about it except to warn everyone to NOT open attachments of unknown or suspicious origin and to have your anti-virus software checking all your incoming mail. If you post to the ILHAMILT-L list (or any list for that matter) and get a response back with an attachment, RESIST THE URGE TO OPEN THE ATTACHMENT WITH ALL YOUR BEING. Before deleting the message, please copy down and inform me of the address so I can remove the address from the list until the person has rectified the problem. Thanks, Mike ILHAMILT-L Listowner
Just as a word of caution the virus/worm does NOT have to come as an attachment there other types, sorry I dont remember what they call them but I got one. It happened to be something that McAfee didn't find even with a full system scan.. My son sent me to a site on the net that is free and it found it and cleaned it. I have changed to Norton as I use Netscape to do email and McAfee would not work with it. So make sure that what ever antivirus you are using works to check your incoming email and be sure to keep it updated!!! Gale Prince Nash "Michael L. Hebert" wrote: > The subscribers that were unwittingly infected with the W32.Badtrans virus > and distributing it to ILHAMILT-L list posters have now cleaned their > computers and the list seems to be virus free. This latest virus > (W32.Badtrans) has plagued a lot of lists. You can find more info. on it > at: > > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ > > Not much can be done about it except to warn everyone to NOT open > attachments of unknown or suspicious origin and to have your anti-virus > software checking all your incoming mail. If you post to the ILHAMILT-L > list (or any list for that matter) and get a response back with an > attachment, RESIST THE URGE TO OPEN THE ATTACHMENT WITH ALL YOUR BEING. > Before deleting the message, please copy down and inform me of the address > so I can remove the address from the list until the person has rectified the > problem. > > Thanks, > Mike > ILHAMILT-L Listowner > > ==== ILHAMILT Mailing List ==== > Listowner, Michael L. Hebert mailto:mhebert.usgw@home.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > Search the ILHAMILT-L archives > ------------------------------ > Interactive search: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=ILHAMILT-L > Threaded archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ILHAMILT