Sherry - Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I installed the checker, and had not one, but three of those viruses (viri?). Without your advise, I might have infected others - hopefully, I haven't already. Al Plyler http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~plylerfamily On Mon, 7 May 2001 18:08:47 -0400 "Sherry J" <[email protected]> writes: > The virus that you sent out was called the W32 Badtrans worm. This > virus also drops a backdoor Trojan. I know they don't like virus warnings > on the mailing lists, but this one is hitting the Rootsweb Mailing lists > especially hard because of the way that it perpetuates itself, so > perhaps the list moderators will want to warn those on their lists about > it. > > You can download a fix for this worm called the Trojan Cleaner from > this website: > > http://www.angelfire.com/or/matney/page1.html >