Best policy is, DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENT UNLESS YOU ASKED FOR IT; Don't take a message that is poorly written as coming from your friend or Cousin. The Verbiage is bad because the perpetrator's native tongue is not English...No one whose native tongue is English would form the phrases like the Virus messages have...Reportedly, they are Red China...Your Friend/Cousin's computer may be forwarding without his/her knowledge. So, ask them. If you don't get an answer, DELETE it because it likely is a message sent by the Virus and your friend can't reply, because the Virus blocked your address to prevent you from warning the friend...a matter of self-perpetuation for the Virus...DELETE IT UnOPENED...Do not let your curiosity get control of your good judgment... PLEASE Folks, if you have not run a Virus SCAN in the last two days, PLEASE down-load and update your Virus SW, then Shut down, and run the Scan...someone's machine is sending out Virus by the scores...and it is taking all our time just watching to avoid it... Don't say it isn't yours...because you won't know it if it is...but we do... You can find more information about removing it from: Symantec (Norton): <http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html> McAfee: <http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/sircam/default.asp?cid=2360> >From: "Angela Kneller" <angela@kneller.com> >Reply-To: OHPERRY-L@rootsweb.com >To: OHPERRY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [OHPERRY] Please Be Careful!!! >Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:51:56 -0500 > > This dreaded SirCam virus is still going around heavily. PLEASE BE >CAREFUL when opening attachments! I am getting in excess of 60 infected >emails daily. The virus spreads by taking a file from your computer, >attaching it to an email, embedding the virus into that attachment, then >emails itself to others. Some of these are *very* large attachments (think >of all the files you have on your computer) and I had my server halted two >nights ago by a virus ridden email stuck because the attachment was too >large and my server disconnects after 15 minutes! So considering I run on >a cable modem and I couldn't download the complete email within that 15 minutes, it was rather large thus causing numerous problems on my end! > So please be extra careful when opening attachments and keep your virus programs updated! This is a nasty virus and can cause considerable computer damage! > (Really makes you wonder who has time to write these destructive virus'! Whoever does, they must not be into genealogy as they would be too busy trying to sort out brick walls!) You can find more information about the virus and removing it from: > > Symantec (Norton): >http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html > > McAfee: >http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/sircam/default.asp?cid=2360 > > Best Regards, > Angela Kneller - angela@kneller.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp