Florence and all-- Florence was correct in what she posted, however, I am now concerned with this new one that has just come up. The badtrans is bad enough, but at least people are able to eliminate it from the system. This new one is NOT be caught in the scans and it is destroying the actual files used to get rid of it. I still find that the best method of protection is to NOT open ANY attachments or even the emails containing them. That is your best route of protection instead of trying to guess which ones are "ok" or not. With the 17 lists I have, I am filtering mail from somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500-2000 different persons/systems. Although I have seen the various attachments and unsubbed persons, I HAVE NOT had one episode of getting the viruses by simply following the "no attachment" rule. Please let your system weigh more in your minds then that "one" piece of potential data that you think you are missing by not opening those emails. Again, NO attachments will come THROUGH the mailing list. If the email has the list name in the subject line and it has an attachment DUMP IT. Don't even think twice about it. Debbie Jennings Indiana Research for Hire <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/in4/indianaresearch/index.html">http://www.angelfire.com/in4/indianaresearch</A> Franklin county Vermont Genweb Site <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtfrankl/Franklin.html">Franklin County Vermont</A> Lancaster County Virginia Genweb Site <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~valancas/">Lancaster County, VAGenWeb Project</A> Sweet Owen and Surrounding Areas <A HREF="http://angelfire.lycos.com/in4/sweetowen">http://www.angelfire.com/in4/sweetowen/</A> Our Kentuckiana Home <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/ky3/kentuckianahome">http://www.angelfire.com/ky3/kentuckianahome/</A>