Hi Listers, I received this E-zine today, and wanted to share this....to prevent someone from picking up a virus. Diane T. mzplum_2000@yahoo.com WARNING to Genealogy Researchers! (From Robert Ragan's TREASURE MAPS Genealogy E-zine) -------------------------------------------- This topic has been mentioned in past issues, but you won't believe this one... The viruses that are attached to e-mail messages are getting more deceptive than ever. This message is dangerous because it is compelling to genealogy researchers. The attachment was named 'hills.com' BUT... this was no link to a Web site; it was a link to a nasty virus-in-waiting. Here it is: >SUBJECT: She began her sojourn on this earth. >Born as Ruth McCoury to Scotch-English parents, >she was baptized as an infant in the Southern >Presbyterian Church. She remembers with fondness >her parents as being good, devout people. The >family moved...(continues) This is very deceptive and is becoming common of most viruses that come with these 'strange' e-mail messages. The person who receives it goes, 'Hmmm....I wonder what this is' and clicks on it. If I had clicked on this attachment (which looked like a link to a site) it would have unleashed the virus on my computer. However, I knew that it was a virus and deleted it, so there was no harm done, but I know that many people would fall for this one (I had to think about it myself). There is an article that I wrote that tells about these viruses, but more important, shows you where you can do a free virus scan on-line and find and delete any of these pesky attachments. Even if you have virus protection software, unless you updated it often, it may miss some of the latest viruses. Don't be scared and stop using your e-mail for genealogy research. Be careful and be educated. PLEASE read and print this article. It may be a big help to you: http://amberskyline.com/freescan/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!