The person you received the virus from is not on the MOMERCER List. She may have had you in her address book for some reason. Depending on the type of virus it is, it can send itself to all the addresses on her computer. Bottom line--do not open attachments from anyone you don't know, and only from someone you do know after checking with them first. MoMercer List Administrator

Please pardon the off topic but... Just a short note about "Virus Found" People who do genealogy don't necessarily know when they are going to get, "a hole in our brick wall." With a proper virus protection program we will be safer from "just what if?" Get a virus protection program. !!!!Keep it updated.!!!! All of the below listed have different aspects as to: When they run, how much resources they use, etc. Some have a program you can run specifically on a separate, individual e mail to "test it" to see if it is OK I make no testimonials about any program listed below and this list isn't necessarily inclusive. All I can comment is NOBODY is 100% safe. Just hedge your bets. You can spray for roaches until it kills the cat. These two are free: AGV http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.cfm Vcatch http://www.vcatch.com/home.html or a commercial brand. Most of these are downloadable for free for a minimum 30 days. pay or disabled after that. Most can be purchased in Office, Electronics, or Computer stores, Wal-Mart(?) etc. Definitely on the internet. McAffee http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles_zdnet/info.html?fcode 000H1M&b=help PC-Cillin http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles_zdnet/info.html?fcode 000NU2&b=help Norton For Windows NT or 2000 http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles_zdnet/info.html?fcode 0013TA&b=help Norton For Windows 95 / 98 or ME http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles_zdnet/info.html?fcode 00124O&b=help My what a tangled web they wove. Robert Riddle reriddle@home.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jcbarbra@cs.com> To: <MOMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [MOMERCER-L] PLEASE READ, VIRUS FOUND-Kim > The person you received the virus from is not on the MOMERCER List. She may > have had you in her address book for some reason. Depending on the type of > virus it is, it can send itself to all the addresses on her computer. > > Bottom line--do not open attachments from anyone you don't know, and only > from someone you do know after checking with them first. > > MoMercer List Administrator > > > ==== MOMERCER Mailing List ==== > List mail archives can be accessed at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > or at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >