Hi Jim, Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! If you had not posted the SYMANTEC URL listed below, I would not have had verification that the "odd-ball" msg to me from me with an attachment shown as GADGET.EXE is a VIRUS. The wording in the msg was: Opps, I can't list the URL that was shown because it keeps highlighting, but it was in colour and mentioned: Stuart and message mates. The rest of the msg was: "Hypercool Happy New Year 2000 funny programs and animations. We attached our recent animation from this site in our mail. Check it out". It came to me through the another genealogy list as a reply. The sender was shown as Me and recipient was shown as ME. My addy was used in both locations and I knew I hadn't sent any msgs. to anyone, let alone myself. Oddly enough though, I did 2 on-line scans and neither one found it. However, I did delete the msg and then emptied the trash. Did not open it. There is a large list of .exe files that this virus is using, please be careful. Happy Hunting, Donna ----- Original Message ----- > At 01:04 AM 12/17/99 -0700, Thomas D. Sevy wrote: > >I just received an Email that was addressed: From: Thomas D. Sevy > >(that's me) To: ---> snip ---> (that's my E-mail address) > > The attached file is named: cooler3.exe. I have no idea what it is, > > but the conditions are very suspicious. ------> snip -----> > They have discovered the virus that was discussed on this list the other > day. Apparently the file was mistakenly sent our by Rootsweb. You can read > about the Cooler3.exe virus here. > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.newapt.html