I don't know if this is true or not, but it was suggested to me, I did it, and so far I have had no problems with any virus. The virus spreads through your address book. I was told to stop this do the following: Enter this in your address book: Under nickname enter A Worm Under first name enter !000 (This is an exclamation point and 3 0's Under address enter wormalert I am told this will stop the worm from getting into your address book and spreading a virus. I may not know what I am talking about but I did it and so far so good. Faye

Thanks, Faye. This system may work on most worms and trojans, but the unique thing about this latest bug, which is a new version of Badtrans, is that it replies to unopened mail it finds in your mailbox, instead of just going into the address book and starting at the A's like most of them do. This means the subject of the infected letter will be re: + the subject of the mail it replied to. It looks like perfectly legitimate mail coming in from someone you know, and the attachment may have a common extension like .txt or .doc, too, which makes it more likely to be opened. Very sneaky. And that is why it is proliferating so fast. Sometimes the attachment is just a blank page of a notepad file. The email address of the sender will be changed to include an underscore ( _ ) at the front of it, so watch out for that, too. Teresa Hostess: http://GenNetwork.org Family pages and databases: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~terishands http://www.skipworthcousins.ourfamily.com http://www.gencircles.com/users/tshan/1 http://terisha4.tripod.com/colliergensite/ ----- Original Message ----- From: FLD <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: [NCROOTS] Stop Worms?? I don't know if this is true or not, but it was suggested to me, I did it, and so far I have had no problems with any virus. The virus spreads through your address book. I was told to stop this do the following: Enter this in your address book: Under nickname enter A Worm Under first name enter !000 (This is an exclamation point and 3 0's Under address enter wormalert I am told this will stop the worm from getting into your address book and spreading a virus. I may not know what I am talking about but I did it and so far so good. Faye ==== NCROOTS Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] (or [email protected] for digest mode" Put the one word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. It helps to leave the subject line blank, or put UNSUBSCRIBE there also.