My only comment to this is I didn't open any attachment. My Norton caught it right away and I quarentined it and I still got it. Joyce >From: Linnea Travis Miller <ltmiller@ptd.net> >Reply-To: PENNA-DUTCH-L@rootsweb.com >To: PENNA-DUTCH-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [PADutch] Virus Alert >Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 20:13:05 -0400 > >--============_-1221630869==_ma============ >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > >First of all this W32.Badtrans.13312@mm has nothing to do with any >list held at Rootsweb. You are receiving a reply to your post to this >list by another subscriber who has "caught" this bug. > >It's an annoying little worm that replies to your unread e-mails and >attaches itself for propagation purposes. It appears as if the person >you wrote is replying to your post since the subject is "RE: >[whatever the subject was]. What will tip you off is that the message >you sent is only partially quoted AND at the bottom is the >statement: > Take a look to the attachment. > >The attachment can be any number of these files: > >Pics.ZIP.scr, images.pif, README.TXT.pif, New_Napster_Site.DOC.scr, >news_doc.scr, hamster.ZIP.scr, YOU_are_FAT!.TXT.pif, searchURL.scr, >SETUP.pif, Card.pif, Me_nude.AVI.pif, Sorry_about_yesterday.DOC.pif, >s3msong.MP3.pif, docs.scr, Humor.TXT.pif, fun.pif > >Whatever you do DO NOT even attempt to open these attachments!!! If >you have, you have infected yourself and you must clean your system >of all infected files. A good site to visit is: >http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.13312@mm.html > >the Symantec (Norton Antivirus) site. They give tips on how to >eradicate your system of this worm. > >Don't be embarrassed if you did open the attachment and infected your >system. Just clean it up and use your anti-virus software regularly - >and make sure you have the most recent update! If someone sends you a >message telling you what they've received and that you have this >worm, believe them. You won't know unless someone receives one of >your "replies". > >Some good guidelines for use of e-mail are: > >1. Don't open attachments from people you don't know. >2. Don't open attachments you don't expect. It may be from someone you know >but it isn't something they intended to send. >3. Run some good virus software - Norton or McAfee - all the time. Keep >your >updates of their virus definitions current. >4. Back up your data!!!! Viruses are not the only peril you face. >(Lightning, power surges, fire, vandals...) > >Good luck! > >-Linnea Miller > >At 4:08 PM -0400 5/21/01, Alfred J. Spiry SR. wrote: > >Thanks for your e-mail on the virus.I got the Halph Tewsbury and "bit", >my > >McAfee caught it, but said that > >I had to delete "C:\Windows\HKK32.Exe" and replace it from a back up. > > > >Since you appear to much more computer literate, where > >can I find out w > > >==== PENNA-DUTCH Mailing List ==== >The official webstie for this list is at: >http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/~padutch/ > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Joyce Barrie wrote: > > My only comment to this is I didn't open any attachment. My Norton caught > it right away and I quarentined it and I still got it. > Joyce Joyce - if you will run Norton Utilities, choose the Virus whatever they call it, 'Quarantine Console' - it will list the things that are in quarantine. Then you can select them one by one and click the 'Delete' button at the top of that, and they will be *gone*. You will not have them after that - though you may have the mail to which they were attached - the virus thing has been *removed* and that mail is now harmless but since it is also meaningless you may as well delete that too, in your mail program. Jan