Thanks for the warning. I'm up to date on my Norton's and Norton has found almost one a day. These are sick people. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Urban" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: [[ILLAKE]: ] watch out for virus > http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/extra/4948.asp > > Please go to this web page and see what is going on on these two querie > boards. I am getting bombarded with e-mails carrying virus. The "McAfee > Automatic Scan" attached to the messages posted to these boards is totally > useless. And they are getting slick. Now they actually put a subject. It > is usually "re:" a message you actually posted to this system. That is how > I got it. It was actually from someone I new and had a subject regarding > one of my queries. The difference is they put a "_" in front of the > person's name sending the message. They one I just deleted was called > "Sorry About Yesterday.mpg" and the previous was "Fat Lady Sings". With the > "Badnews" virus I was stupid enough to open and infect our computer. This > one will send an e-mail to "any" email address in your mailbox. The e-mail > address can be on an e-mail, not just in your address book. You will not > even know who you have sent these virus to. Yesterday we also got a Norton > virus alert on a web page that had the lyrics of music. Luckily we have > been keeping our anti virus program current. > > Good luck. > > Mary > > [email protected] > http://genealogy2002.tripod.com > http://communities.msn.com/Genealogy2000 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp >