Hello Everyone, I just wanted to plead the case of this person. Please, don't be angry at them. They are not sending out this virus, the virus itself is. This is a very nasty little worm, and it changes the message on the subject line just about everytime it is sent. The person whose machine this is coming from, is subscribed to this list. When they boot up their computer, this nasty little worm sends out this virus email message to EVERY UNOPENED EMAIL IN HIS MAILBOX all without the knowledge of the person who is working the computer. I am pretty sure that each of you who sent a warning to the Howard county list, got another messages from ktobias with the worm attached, as a reply. It's an automatic response of this worm. Ktobias is just a victim of this worm, like all the rest of us. They simply were not aware that they have it. Most of you got three or four, because that is how many posts that you submitted to the Howard county list in the last few days. Well, I received somewhere between 60-100 last night. Another twenty or so this morning. It's the price I pay for being so prolific. Luckily, I have Norton Anti-virus and it was able to contain the worm. My husband Mike sent Ktobias an email last night, explaining what the worm was, and giving them the URL to go to to get this worm out of their system. One really good rule of thumb for everyone out there, is to NEVER open an attachment, unless the person it is from has sent you a prior email advising that an attachment is in the next email, and giving you a specific message in the subject line. I make it a pretty hard and fast rule never to open attachments without first sending an email to the sender asking if the attachment was intended. I don't accept forwards. If someone wants to forward something to me, they will need to cut and paste the origil message and then send it to me in a new email. . If anyone on this list opened an attachment from this ktobias, your machine is now infected, unless you had a virus protection program that alerted you to the worm and quarantined it for you. Please, everyone on this list, run a virus scan now, and make sure your machine is clean. If you don't own an Anti-virus program, run, don't walk to the nearest store and put one on your machine. It will save your computer from crashes, and save you a lot of friendships. They aren't that expensive, and are well worth the money. And remember to keep getting the updates online to keep your virus protection current. We do ours every two weeks, and it only takes a few minutes to keep it current. With this particular worm, it saved our system, because we had just gotten the update, a day before it hit my computer for the first time. Kathy Bowlin