I just updated my Norton, which allegedly according to the articles attached in the earlier e-mails is supposed to have a clean-up for it, but I didn't find it in the list of viruses in its catalog. Because I teach at a university, and we get e-mail from all over the world, we're constantly getting viruses on the network. The network administrators usually catch them and clean up the mess for us. I called our network admin at home tonight after I discovered I had this one because the payload is more severe than most. I'm assuming I picked it off from school mail because I do not have shared printers or files selected on my home computer. However, a copy of my school mail is downloaded to my home computer when I read it even though the original is left of the server. I'm assuming it didn't do anything lethal to my home computer because I don't have the shared files and printers selected under network and the others of you who found it on your computers probably still have a hard drive because you didn't have them selected, either. From what I read, it's harmless w/o the network. However, 2 of my colleagues were in the recipient list of the message I suspect was carrying it and I called them at home tonight to tell them to delete the message w/o opening it in the morning because our school computers are set up to share printers and files. We'd be in a hell of a fix if our hard drives were wiped out. Unfortunately, a student is sending this out unaware he's got it. I *teach* computers. This is not a fancy program. I used to be a social worker. There are too many people in this world with exceptional talent who get off on using their gifts by being destructive rather than being constructive. It's why I got out of social work. But, I've discovered I can't escape "evil" even in the world of machinery. Very disappointing. Since this one seems to be rather rampant (based on discovering at least 3 of us have it when it was just *released* yesterday, it's probably a good idea to check for it daily. Ellen ----- Original Message ----- From: Melody Campagna <droponin@home.com> To: <KNAPP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 12:02 AM 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/ > > >