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    1. I MAY HAVE SENT YOU A VIRUS!! PLEASE READ TO GET THE "FIX"!!
    2. Karen Rice
    3. I am sending this to everyone on my mailing list. There is a new round of Worm32. Instead using a name you don't know to send the corny message "I send this file to have your advice, etc, etc" which we all know and delete by now, there is no e-mail in the body and it uses the names and addresses of people we know and trust out of our own mailing lists, and takes the subject line out of our own inbox, so it's something we trust. It also automatically pops up the option to "Open" or "Save to disk." That should have been a clue, but it wasn't. The e-mail was from someone on a genealogy list that I know and trust. When I tried to open it, the file just went "poof" and disappeared. It was the worm virus going into my computer. If I had looked at the file, I might have clued in. It was "README.src" and exactly 29.0 kb, the second one that came in after the infection came from me(!) - using my work e-mail address, and it was SETUP.src and exactly 29.0 kb. Then I knew. I had a virus. Anyway, it took me two hours to run the fix program, and another 15 min to do a virus scan just to be sure it worked, before I felt safe in sending out this e-mail. If you, like me, opened the file, because it was from someone you trust - me, then please go to: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html and download the fast, FREE fix to get it off your computer! I am so very sorry. I thought I was smart enough to recognize a virus e-mail, but this one caught me totally off guard. Karen Mabry Rice, USGenWeb Archives Coordinator Union Parish, Lousiana http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm Karen Mabry Rice, USGenWeb Archives Coordinator Union Parish, Lousiana http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm

    11/24/2001 08:45:07