Elaine, thanks for your response. I went into Netscape (off line) and found the message and e-mailed the lady in question. I thought she was off the Kentuckiana-L mailing list but if she is this message seemed to be sent directly to me alone. I have never had any contact with the person and cannot imagine why she would be e-mailing me in the first place. I am typing what was on the SUBJECT line etc and see what you think== (click on the www thing below = it is just for your info of my message received) SUBJECT: US PRESIDENTS AND FBI SECRETS = PLEASE VISIT (http://WWW.2600.COM) the supposed attachment was entitled REEEGEC.GIF.vbs Type: VBScript File (application/x-unknown-content-type-VBS File) Encoding: quoted - printable When I clicked on the GIF item is when all haywire broke loose. But little did I think of a virus but an extra large picture of some sort. I had been receiving many cemetery and tombstone pictures and guess I thought this was just another. Plus the fact I had just gotten home from a 30 hour bus ride from Twentynine Palms Marine Base in southern California where I had been for 2 weeks pending the arrival of my first great grandson who refused to cooperate with us. The (little - haaa) stinker finally decided to enter our world on November 19th at a whoppin' 9 pounds 12-1/2 ounces and 20-1/2 inches long. Now this granddaughter of mine (she is my daughter Sabrina's only daughter) is maybe 5'2" at the most and a WET 95 pounder. I still can't believe she had "THIS" baby. Their little daughter Tori is 16 months old and maybe 18/19 pounds at the most. I had updated Norton Virus about a month or so ago from the Internet. I defrag per Dr Bill. Now I'm not sure what you mean by "scan". I might have done it and not remember what it is/was. How is this done to refresh my memory. I went back into MY COMPUTER this evening and clicked on "Select All" and then on "invert or may revert" and the icons came up (showed). Then I clicked out and came back in and they were gone again. Thanks for any help etc you can toss my way. I have sent an e-mail to the man who helped set me up and hope he answers. Antoinette ----- Original Message ----- From: "ETM" <elainetm@starpower.net> To: "Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen" <waughtel@oz.net>; <NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [NEWGEN] NEED SOME HELP OR ADVICE PLEASE > Yes, they should be notified they probably have a worm on their system, they > may not even know it since the worms most often transmit mail without the > sender's knowledge. I am curious. Was the mailing list on eGroups? Last > year Kak was passed through to me from a mailing list on that server. > > Do you have any virus program in place? Norton or McAfee, with current > updates? I suspect that you need to run a scan if it can be done. If you > don't, see if the person who will help you has a current program with > updates to scan your system. > > Have you tried using the Juno free access? It would get you to the internet > for that free HouseCall virus scan. > > Elaine > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen" <waughtel@oz.net> > To: "ETM" <elainetm@starpower.net>; <NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 6:41 PM > Subject: Re: [NEWGEN] NEED SOME HELP OR ADVICE PLEASE > > > > Thanks Elaine, but I can't get onto the Internet. I can send and receive > > messages via IE Outlook Express and/or my JUNO account which I keep for > > "help" messages <grin> in lieu of telephone when I do have problems. > > > > I have sent an e-mail message to a young man who helped me set up my > > computer a couple years ago to see if I can hire him to fix it for me. > > Should I inform the party who sent me the message in the first place ~ it > > was through another mailing list. > > Antoinette > > waughtel@oz.net > > waughtel@juno.com > >