Hi Barb, I had many email attachments also. And I recognized some of the address but I still didn't open any of those files. Sometimes you have to ask yourself, "I know this person BUT am I expecting any files from them? " You can save the file to a floppy and virus scan it with your program. Most of the time I delete it. Your husband sounds like a prince for taking that so well. Just sharing a thought - thanks for posting. Rene'e Davis, CFO ARD, Family Groups PRA - Group 9 Pennington Research Association, Inc. www.penningtonresearch.org ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:02 AM Subject: I had a worm last nite and today > Dear Gene and listmembers, > I received a message last nite that had Gene's address and an attachment. > Thinking it was actually from Gene and might be important, I opened the > attachment and my Norton's shot up and said I was infected with a worm. > This was a particularly difficult worm to get rid of and I couldn't, so > my husband worked on it for at least an hour this afternoon and finally > found the way to get rid of it and determine that my system is clean now. > He scanned several times and it came up clean. > > I had instructed Norton's to stop the worm from sending itself out via > messages purportedly sent from me. > Still, in that short time, apparently it sent itself to a lot of people I > didn't send messages to. When I checked my email tonite, I had 120 > messages and at least 25 of these were telling me that the messages had > been stopped due to being infected by a virus. Everyone, PLEASE RUN > SCANS and make sure your virus list is current. I can't say for sure if > anyone else got an infected message before I was able to instruct > Norton's to prevent the worm from resending itself. I don't keep an > address list so I'm not sure where it got the addresses. It may have been > through some of my saved messages. Some of the blocked messages had > these address beginnings: kathpenn > [email protected] > > [email protected] costas > [email protected] > > > [email protected] persiank > mclnva23.covad > > I think the lists have filters, but just want to make sure no one else > gets this malicious worm if I can. > Sorry to everyone for opening that attachment. My husband was really > nice about it. > Barb T > > > ==== PRA Mailing List ==== > ==== PENNINGTON RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ==== > To submit a query, go to > www.penningtonresearch.org and > click on "Submit Query" button. > >