I know we have been asked not to discuss the virus situation on many of these lists so I am not asking for a discussion BUT I apparently been the recipient of the BadTrans.B worm numerous times since last Saturday. >>>Often arriving with a subject line of Re: and nothing else, the BadTrans.B worm can autolaunch itself onto your system using the one of the same vulnerabilities exploited by the Nimda worm. http://antivirus.about.com/library/weekly/aa112401a.htm <<< When I get these posts, I certainly don't open the attachment but the post will give me a flag message saying: Msimn This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vender. The post will then freeze my Outlook Express and I will have to exit and then bring up OE again. (sometimes again and again and again before I can get off the post to delete it)! I cannot respond to the folks whose names are listed to let them know they have a problem. Is anyone else having this problem? I am certain that other than the idiots who seem to delight in causing problems for the rest of us with computers, NO ONE would knowingly and maliciously send these infected attachments. The batch this afternoon apparently has three infected machines involved. In an effort to alert those with a problem would it be okay to use "check for BadTrans.B" in the subject line and then list the parties the posts are coming from? The three I have this PM are from "Jones" "(null)" and "Chief" As I said, I am NOT opening any of the attachments and Symantec says my system is clean Thanks! Dianna Gilliam justpeachy@greenhills.net