A variation of the Badtrans virus is loose again - I've got about 40 of them today. As I saw them downloading - I deleted the attachments - .scr and .pif but according to the info below, I'm not sure that that was enough. >From a list I'm on: 'It's a variation of the badtran virus. This one lauches itself through a blank email. You don't have to open the attachment for it to run amuk. I don't see any updates on McAfee or Symantec for it; This virus eats up every available byte of memory you've got, and I'd guess would then crash your computer without utilities to recover memory. I know it's a variation of the badtran, that much I've figured out. It sends itself out to everyone in your address book, not just unread mail as previous versions of the badtran. It also launches itself by simply reading the email since the program is embedded into a blank email. I'd suggest that you set your email program NOT to show HTML emails, but only in .txt format. I think that will stop it from launching (but I'm not sure). When it resends itself, it uses several different file extensions and file names. So don't count on it being the same as what David said earlier. It won't be. This one is not writing the "kern32" or "inetd" files onto your root directory, like the badtran virus did. I haven't figured out what files were written, but I do know that the system registry was affected, just like the original badtran. It also seems to resend itself AGAIN everytime you get online. So, expect several copies of it from all us idiots who don't want to waste disk space on anti-virus programs.' Tim