I have been receiving a LOT of emails generated by the Bad Trans 32 virus - so this thing is REALLY spreading! I have been receiving it as an attachment to an email with no message text. These attachments should be deleted immediately and never opened. Also, it puts an underscore (_) as the first character of the sender's email address, apparently to disrupt an attempt to reply with a warning. My freshly updated installation of Norton Anti-Virus does, in fact, catch the Bad Trans 32 virus (W32.Badtrans.B@mm). Any anti-virus software must be periodically updated for new virus strains. Most of the popular programs are quickly and easily updated through their respective vendor's web connection. It may take a minute or two with a 56K modem connection. Updates can be scheduled to run automatically; once or twice a month is typical. Also, the software has to be set to scan ALL files, not just executable ('.EXE') files. Bad Trans 32 propagates as a .SCR attachment. Neal Underwood >At 05:05 AM 12/8/01 -0700, you wrote: > >To everyone, > My sincere apologies and deepest thanks to everyone who emailed me >regarding the virus I had on my computer. I have/had Norton anti-virus >software, but it did not pick up this strain of Bad Trans 32! Needless to >say, Norton is in the trash and I have a new anti-virus software in place! >This strain (Bad Trans 32.B) does not attack your address book, instead it >goes after ALL addresses of unopened mail! And you do not have to open it! >Considering all the lists that I am on, that's a lot of people! I was >getting 10 to 20 infected emails a day and guess what... you can have it on >your system more than once at a time! Every time I thought I had gotten rid >of it, it popped up again! Anyway, it has been an absolutely miserable two >weeks! Again, my apologies to all... so sorry this happened! > >Suzanne Shephard >CC for: > Adair Co., Boone Co. & Henry Co. >http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyadair/ >http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyboone/ >http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyhenry/ >Home Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~csyelton/ >