Cindy, No one was blaming Paul. We haven't heard back from him, he's not on the mailing list, we wrote to him and asked him about it, and he hasn't responded. This virus isn't the same as the one that clones itself to a address book name, and sends a blank message, it had a message for us to "look at the attachment", so until we hear from this person I'm afraid he is under suspicion. If he's innocent he should speak up.

I'm afraid I still have to stick up for Paul. If he has a virus he's really not able to reply until he gets rid of it. Believe me I spent all evening after work dealing w/ this thing! The virus lays dormant for a while, abt 24 hours. It then replies to ANY email you read, you don't need to even reply. In fact unless you have an updated virus scanner you don't even have to "open" the attachment. you will double-click on it & it will say it can't open. However that too is part of the virus, actually it did open & has launched itself! It sent itself out to people that were not in my address book. I know this is hard to understand & believe but that's why virus' are so awful! When I finally updated Norton Utilities it found I had 3 infected files, 2 were messages that appeared to be replies to a Huron co., OH query. It looked like a real reply , you can tell it's the virus b/c at the end of quoting your own message it says: take a look to the attachment". Rootsweb has a filter so the virus can't go to the list, but it can go to individuals. I'm sorry to take up so much space w/ this but felt I needed to let everyone know what's going on. As per my previous message this is a virus that started in New Zealand, no one is now spreading it on purpose. Cindy Cindy Torres Owens cindyo@va.prestige.net http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/o/w/e/Cindy-L-Owens/index.html