Thank you, Candy, for the virus posting and if you can add anything to this posting, PLEASE DO! Folks, this is serious. There are many, many new viruses out and about and more coming every day. These viruses can imitate a friend and seem harmless. With permission, I have copied and pasted a portion of an e-mail received from someone who by far is more educated on these viruses than I. These will give you an idea of what to look for. >> The worm is in the attachment, which has a name chosen randomly from the following list: baby.exe, bboy.exe, boss.exe, casper.exe, chestburst.exe, cooler1.exe, cooler3.exe, copier.exe, cupid2.exe, farter.exe, fborfw.exe, goal.exe, goal1.exe, g-zilla.exe, irngiant.exe, hog.exe, monica.exe, panther.exe, panthr.exe, party.exe, pirate.exe, s.exe, saddam.exe, theobbq.exe, video.exe. If the worm is run, the following dummy error message appears: The dinamic link library giface.dll could not be found in the specified path [list of directory names] Note the misspelling of the word "dynamic". If the worm detects that Outlook Express is installed, it will search for messages received and build a list of addresses. The next time Windows is booted, the worm waits an unspecified amount of time and then attempts to send itself to one of the addresses in its list, using the format described above. >> W32/NewApt.worm W32/NewApt is an email worm discovered on Dec. 14, 1999. AVERT has given it a risk assessment of Medium-On Watch. This worm arrives as an email attachment. The body of the email appears differently depending on whether the email client reads HTML. If it does, the email text looks like this: - ------------------------------------------------------------- http://stuart.messagemates.com/index.html Hypercool Happy New Year 2000 funny programs and animations... We attached our recent animation from this site in our mail ! Check it out !! **************************************************************************** ******* Do not click on hyperlinks such as the one above. Use extreme caution!!!! Ann