I know some people don't like all this virus discussion, but I have a problem. Someone on another list I subscribe to (not this one) transmitted a virus to me, just like the one Diana was describing. The message line reads "re: " and I also get that illegal operations message. My problem is that whenever I try to either open the message or delete it, I get that illegal operations message and Outlook closes. So consequently, I can't get the dang thing off my email. Does anyone know how I can delete that infected message from my mail? I did download some virus software to protect against this happening again and it found 7 files infected with trans . . .worm or whatever that thing is called. Don't worry, that was on my computer at home, so this message is coming from a different computer. Plus, the software said that it deleted those 7 files. My apologies to those people who don't like to discuss the new virus, but it seems that my infection came from a genealogy list, so we need to protect ourselves. Janet Estep