Hi: Jan, here...It's "me"....the virus spreader!!!! The funny part (if there can be anything "funny" about these virus') was that I got a strange message but there was no attachment......and until this morning when my computer tried to generate over 500 e-mails in my outbox from "me" , I didn't know anything was wrong. I have done a "search" of my system for BADTRANS of any kind and found nothing!!!! Also did a search for any ending with txt.pif and nothing! I deleted all my "sent" items and "deleted" items so perhaps that helped. I did "disconnect" from the internet and deleted almost all of the messages before they got out (I think) but from the amount of mail I've been getting telling me about the virus, I think more were sent out than I knew about! I would never, knowingly, send a virus to anyone and I apologize if anyone got it! The people who start these should be euthanized!!!!! My apologies! Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lundeen" <tom@lundeen.org> To: <ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [ILKNOX-L] Messages Containing a Virus > Bob Miller, on 6/11/01 3:43 PM, said: > > >> Take a look to the attachment. > > Bob: > > This queerly-worded phrase is a dead giveaway that Janice has the > Badtrans virus. Her message would most certainly have had an attachment, > likely with an extension of ".pif" and often with a "double" extension > ("xxxxx.TXT.pif" for example). It goes without saying that you should NOT > open it, but trash it immediately (if you have not already done so). > > This virus propagates itself by replying to any unread message in the > infected computer's inbox, and attaches itself to each message. The > messages are usually sent out without the user ever being aware of it, so > please don't insinuate (and you really haven't) that Jan sent this out > intentionally. > > Hope that helps, > > Tom Lundeen >