I am VERY sorry if anyone got a virus from my system. I received it from someone on a rootsweb mail list. Since I expected an attachment from the person who sent it to me, I opened it. That was all it took to get the virus. We had just returned from a brief trip and I collected my messages and started deleting the ones that I knew nothing about the surnames given in the subject line. By clicking on "DELETE" it sent the message with an attachment to the person who had sent the message to the list, as well as another message back to me. I then disconnected from the server so as not to have more messages sent. That was after "the horse was out of the barn" though. We have now deleted from our computer the program that runs the virus , so I believe they are okay now. But as an extra safeguard, please don't open a message that I sent you with an attachment. I seldom send attachments to anyone that I hardly know. I prefer to copy and paste to the e-mail message. Then there is no attachment. I DID NOT SEND A MESSAGE TO ANYONE ON THIS LIST IN THE LAST WEEK or more. Again, I am very sorry for anyone whose computer received a message from me with an attachment. Dot

I too am sorry. I may have been the one that it was forwarded from.I don't know who sent it to me, but I got the Virus and before I could stop it it went to all my email. It damaged my computer and files and I paid a man to come and clear it for me. I think it's terrible of people to do this. The man who worked on my computer said "don't open any attachment even if you know who its from as the same thing could have happened to them without their knowledge" This has been a mess and I will never open another attachment. [email protected] worldnet.att.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "gengar" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:11 PM Subject: [ILMARION] Continued virus warning > I am VERY sorry if anyone got a virus from my system. I received it from > someone on a rootsweb mail list. Since I expected an attachment from > the person who sent it to me, I opened it. That was all it took to get the > virus. > > We had just returned from a brief trip and I collected my messages and > started deleting the ones that I knew nothing about the surnames given in > the subject line. By clicking on "DELETE" it sent the message with an > attachment to the person who had sent the message to the list, as well as > another message back to me. > > I then disconnected from the server so as not to have more messages sent. > That was after "the horse was out of the barn" though. > > We have now deleted from our computer the program that runs the virus , so I > believe they are okay now. But as an extra safeguard, please don't open a > message that I sent you with an attachment. I seldom send attachments to > anyone that I hardly know. I prefer to copy and paste to the e-mail > message. Then there is no attachment. > > I DID NOT SEND A MESSAGE TO ANYONE ON THIS LIST > IN THE LAST WEEK or more. > > Again, I am very sorry for anyone whose computer received a message from me > with an attachment. > > Dot > > > > > ==== ILMARION Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the ILMARION List if you are in mail mode, send to > [email protected] If you are receiving messages in the digest mode, send to [email protected] > >