First, my apologies for posting this directly to the list, with it not being of the nature of this list, but I felt it might be useful for anyone using Outlook Express. Lorraine and anyone else interested. There is indeed a way, in Outlook Express, to avoid actually opening the message when you click on it and therefore gives you a chance to delete it without getting zapped by a virus. What has to happen is the bottom pane, called the preview pane, which what allows to see what is in a message when you click on it, must be closed so that instead of having an upper and lower pane, you only have one pane which is the list of messages. To close the preview pain, in Outlook Express go up to View and the click on Layout, a window will come up and about at the mid point of this window is a box marked preview pane, which by default is checked. Uncheck that little box and hit Apply and the bottom preview pane window in Outlook Express will disappear. This means that unless you go back in an check the box again, you will have to double click to open any mail you have in your mailbox, but it give you the control to read only what you want to read and delete what you want to delete without any danger. I have had mine setup this way for some months now, ever since another major virus threat came around and this was suggested by Norton for Outlook Express users because some viruses, such as the Badtrans that we are dealing with now, can be unleashed by clicking on it and having it come up in the preview pane. Most people aren't aware of this option and think there is nothing they can do to delete a message without opening it. Granted this isn't a fail safe against getting a virus because I got this Badtrans, but that was from foolishly opening an email, (by double clicking) what I thought was a legitimate reply to an old query and unleashing the virus onto my system. This was on one of the first days of this latest threat and what is happening now had not yet gotten to the point it is now. My system is clean now, but it an aggravation that I could have spared myself easily had I known what was happening. Richard Holt ----- Original Message ----- From: "lee zuker" <leez33@msn.com> To: <JENNINGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:59 PM Subject: [JENNINGS] Outlook Express > > > > Not absolutely positive this will work, but it should. But you might try. > > Highlight an unwanted message above it on the list. Then hold down the > shift key and highlight an unwanted message below it. This will highlight > the whole group without opening > any message other than the first. Then right click and hit delete, and the > whole range will go. > > Let us all know if this works .. > > lee zuker > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lorraine Fisher [mailto:fishrat@southwest.com.au] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:30 PM > To: JENNINGS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [JENNINGS] For Your Information > > > Hi, Debbie, thanks for your work. Unfortunately, on Outlook Express, I > can't delete an email without clicking on it (I'm not talking about the > attachment, just the standard email line). I have a Badtrans sitting there > on my page, and my anti-virus program stops it, but I can't get rid of it. > Any ideas? > Regards, > > > > > ==== JENNINGS Mailing List ==== > Genealogical research is supposed to be fun, please keep it that way! > To unsubscribe from this list, send to > JENNINGS-L-request@rootsweb.com and write only one word > unsubscribe in the text field and send. > No other words, no signature, no fancy taglines. > > > > ==== JENNINGS Mailing List ==== > Welcome to the JENNINGS mail list - > new subscribers should check the mail list archives at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=jennings > for rules and regulations, and should familiarize > themselves how this mail list works, and we all > benefit. >