As one final addition to the information I've provided about the current virus, one of your fellow list members kindly sent me the following web links with more information. The Sophos link describes how the virus works and provides instructions on how to remove it. MessageLabs offers some quantitative analysis. Sophos: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32badtransb.html MessageLabs: http://www.messagelabs.com/viruseye/report.asp?id=86 I would also like to reiterate what I said before - taking part in a email activity, especially a mailing list, without anti-virus software is a risky activity, that endangers any data on your own computer, as well as that of anyone with whom you communicate. This is doubly true for those of us who use a Microsoft OS, and triply true if you are using Outlook for email. Again, if any of you receive infected messages which seem to come from this mailing list, please contact me immediately so that I can attend to the problem as quickly as possible. Thanks, Mike <NJBURLIN-ADMIN@RootsWeb.com> <GILBERT-ADMIN@RootsWeb.com>