Yes. But, when you find it in Find, you can delete it from there. I just checked the additional files mentioned on the Symantec site, ashield.pif, netstat.pif, and winsock.vbs, and I don't have any of them. So, deleting the chode file apparently got rid of all of them. I also just spent an hour and half letting Norton run a scan on my whole hard drive and it didn't find anything, not that it finds 100% of the viruses. The payload isn't delivered until the 19th, so it's probably safe not to check every day until the 18th, at which time ALL of us who receive lots of e-mail should do a FIND on chode to make sure we haven't gotten it between now and then. People who have it don't know they're sending it. We just checked, so we found we've got it. But, we can't make the whole world aware. I have a ton of friends on aol and its one of the biggest propagators of viruses because of the size of its subscribers. But, other ISPs are involved as well. We're on lists, we've got friends, we've been warned. I'll be checking again on the 18th and not opening my mail at home on the 19th. I don't care at school. I don't save stuff on my hard drive there and they'll buy a new computer for me if it gets wiped out anyway. Furthermore, the network admin's job is to keep us *clean*. I've sent him everything, so he's well fore-warned. But, as near as I can tell, w/o shared files and printers selected in Network in the Control Panel, it can't do its thing anyway. It's just that we're sending it to people who might have home networks, home businesses, etc. And, I wouldn't/won't take a chance that it doesn't work w/o shared stuff anyway. As an aside, I want to thank the list for this info. Since I teach in the Dept of Computer Technology at a major university, the network admin would probably have been alerted tomorrow by his sources and he'd have alerted us. In the meantime, I've sent out a lot of mail tonight and I would have sent it out to a dozen people unknowingly if I hadn't been warned to check before I sent any mail. Does this have anything to do with genealogy? Hell, YES. If you're genealogy is on your hard drive, it could all go down the tubes with this w/o a back up. Ellen ----- Original Message ----- From: Melody Campagna <droponin@home.com> To: <KNAPP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 1:21 AM Subject: Re: [KNAPP] You guys are life savers > People on this list sent the url so I went there then checked what they said > to check and it was in windows temporary. > Melody(Knapp) Campagna > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/a/m/Melody-A-Campagna/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: CID at KID'S CORNER <cathez@teleport.com> > To: <KNAPP-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 6:55 PM > Subject: Re: [KNAPP] You guys are life savers > > > > how did you check it and get rid of it.? > > Cathy > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Melody Campagna <droponin@home.com> > > To: KNAPP-L@rootsweb.com <KNAPP-L@rootsweb.com> > > Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 7:02 PM > > Subject: [KNAPP] You guys are life savers > > > > > > >Managed to get rid of it but will check daily to see if it comes back. > > >Melody(Knapp) Campagna > > >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/a/m/Melody-A-Campagna/ > > > > > > > > >