I was hit by badtrans in early May. Classic example, I had requested information from another list, received a reply from a list member and opened the attachment before I thought. I have gotten rid of that bad boy. What you have to remember is that you will receive a reply from an individual, not the list itself. If you receive a message with the virus try to remember who sent it because they may be unaware that they have it. Acording to Symantec, even though your anti-virus program catches it and you delete those files, it still manages to deposit an .exe file that has to be deleted manually. See Symantec referenced earlier as you will find instructions there. Gary

Yes, it is best to email the person off the list and tell them, politely, that they may be infected with whatever it is. I am a big believer in getting word out and even when we all feel like we will get sick if we hear of it again, we have to remember that new folks are coming into the world of pc's and those that have been around, could simply have not heard about it, and it is a tricky little deal to begin with. I too, fell for it a few months back and infected my mother's machine. I write the list to make you all become aware that if I am getting it, that you might get it too if you have posted to the list recently and might be one of those unread messages sitting in the infected machine's email program. I usually get it since I post more often then others due to the marriage announcements for Montgomery that I make. So what I am saying is that you need only worry if you have recently sent a message to a list or to a group of people or to just one person and one of those people are infected and has not read your message yet. Then you will get your message back with the reply to look at the attachment, hence making it seem that someone is trying to send something in reference to what you have asked for. But unbeknown to the sender, he or she usually does not know they they are infected when the mail is sent out. Usually it is thru a message privately sent by someone to warn them that it has happened and to try to get it off their machine, and help with how, if possible. That is about all we can do, warn folks, hope they pay close attention to the warning, be on the look out for it to come your way. It will in time, for sure. Just do not open the attachment and all will be fine. Delete the message off your system without opening it. If you do not open the attachment you are not infected. If you did, and got a warning stating you could not open the attachment because it was corrupted or whatever it says, you are infected, no ands, ifs, or buts, about it. Not your fault, only the person who makes these things up. Closing this now to say yet again, do not open any attachment from anyone who has replied to your message with only one sentence, and that being similar to "Look to Attachment." Regardless of who sends it to you, don't open the attachment. But someone still will, sure as the sun will rise tomorrow. Cathy