Rose wrote: > Am I the only one who has recieved 4 trojans virus posted to the Ingreene group by the following e-mail poster? > > Littenn5@hotmail.com > > Thanks for McAffee. You saved the day. > Rose > As far as I know, a virus can not be sent via a Rootsweb mailing list. Donna

According to my virus protection it did indeed get through. All 4 of them. Rose ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" <dkcooper6@comcast.net> To: <ingreene@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [INGREENE] trojan to ingreene group. > Rose wrote: >> Am I the only one who has recieved 4 trojans virus posted to the >> Ingreene group by the following e-mail poster? >> >> Littenn5@hotmail.com >> >> Thanks for McAffee. You saved the day. >> Rose >> > > As far as I know, a virus can not be sent via a Rootsweb mailing list. > Donna > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Others may want to run a scan of their computers with their security programs. I too received the apparent trojan virus messages and deleted them without opening them, but one never knows - better safe than sorry. Who knows what damages may have resulted. Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rose" <fpbdeal@comcast.net> To: <ingreene@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [INGREENE] trojan to ingreene group. > According to my virus protection it did indeed get through. All 4 of > them. > Rose > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donna" <dkcooper6@comcast.net> > To: <ingreene@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:51 PM > Subject: Re: [INGREENE] trojan to ingreene group. > > >> Rose wrote: >>> Am I the only one who has recieved 4 trojans virus posted to the >>> Ingreene group by the following e-mail poster? >>> >>> Littenn5@hotmail.com >>> >>> Thanks for McAffee. You saved the day. >>> Rose >>> >> >> As far as I know, a virus can not be sent via a Rootsweb mailing list. >> Donna >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> INGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INGREENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.3.0/1503 - Release Date: 6/14/2008 > 6:02 PM >

Rose wrote: > According to my virus protection it did indeed get through. All 4 of them. > Rose > > >> As far as I know, a virus can not be sent via a Rootsweb mailing list. >> Donna >> To put everyones mind at ease, I checked with other, more knowledgeable listowners. The archived emails were checked by another list member. This is their reply: ++++I just checked your list archives. I do see the 4 e-mails in the archives, but there is no virus or trojan attached to them. All 4 contain only one line, which is a URL pointing to what is apparently some sort of gaming site. They do all appear to be spam, which other subscribers also alluded to. It appears to be the case that for some e-mail programs, it must try to automatically open the URL, which attempts to download something in Chinese. It would appear to be the thing that would be downloaded which could be a virus or trojan.+++++ The reason that Rootsweb only allows plaintext emails is so that no attachments can be sent via the list, you can get viruses etc. via attachments. So if anyone attempted to open the URLs they might get a virus or trojan. Donna