I have no doubt that we/they firmly believe that they were receiving a virus from the list email ,,, but the big question here is was the email being sent to them from & by RootsWeb ,,, and the key words are "sent by RootsWeb". Many, many times this argument has come up and every time they have been proved wrong when the full headers were examined to determine who the true sender was. The sending ISP is the one thing that cannot be faked and it is always contained in the headers of every email. Who are the "We/They" you refer to ,,,, if they are members of the list, then they could not get rid of any virus contained within the software at RootsWeb as they do not have nor can they gain access to RootsWeb's software. ,,,,, it is true that two or more list members could collaborate to determine who it was that was infected and then help that person get rid of the virus, but only the RootsWeb engineers could clean out a virus in their own software. If there is still one of those infected emails from the Lewis or Bishop lists laying around, forward it to me and I will run a scan on the true senders DNS number to see who it really is. I received an infected email from one of our list members tonight. <g> ,,, it is the W32/BadTrans @MM virus. ,,,, and it came as a list message. Bob Hays [email protected] Richardson List & Board Owner _________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charline Burress" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:22 AM Subject: Re: [RICHARDSON] virus > Oh, yes. You can get a virus from these lists. Thered was one on either the Lewis or Bishop list a few months ago. We/They > all shared info and got rid of it. > > Robert Hays wrote: > > > Pray tell Mary Sue ,, just who are you talking to ????????????????? > > I can assure you, you CANNOT get a virus from this list mail ,,, I repeat, virus' CANNOT be transmitted or received > > by/from any mail from this list. For you to catch a virus from an email the incoming email MUST be in HTML format or > > contain an attachment which you then open. Rootsweb will NOT accept either of the two, much less pass them on to everyone > > on the list. ALL (repeat, ALL) list mail is in Plain Text format which CANNOT contain a virus. > > > > If you suspect that you have a virus, contact me off list and I will help you get rid of it. (if you need any help that > > is.) > > Bob Hays > > [email protected] > > Richardson List & Board Owner > > _________________________________ > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mary Sue Lutz" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:02 PM > > Subject: Re: [RICHARDSON] virus > > > > > I checked it again and again it tells me I have no virus....it isn't doing > > > anything now...so it must not be you..you are the only one of the four who I > > > have heard from...what a mess! I hope this doesn't start yours again...I > > > spoke too soon...it is starting up again... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Mary Sue Lutz" <[email protected]> > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 8:44 PM > > > Subject: [RICHARDSON] virus > > > > > > > > > > My computer was OK and then I got messages from you and the virus > > > started up again....it must be from one of your. I had messages from you > > > earlier, too. > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== RICHARDSON Mailing List ==== > > > > To use the Richardson Query Board: > > > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/ric/Richardson > > > > To review Archived messages: > > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/RICHARDSON-L > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== RICHARDSON Mailing List ==== > > > To use the Richardson Query Board: > > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/ric/Richardson > > > To review Archived messages: > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/RICHARDSON-L > > > > > > > ==== RICHARDSON Mailing List ==== > > To use the Richardson Query Board: > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/ric/Richardson > > To review Archived messages: > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/RICHARDSON-L > > > ==== RICHARDSON Mailing List ==== > To use the Richardson Query Board: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/ric/Richardson > To review Archived messages: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/RICHARDSON-L >