Below is a message that I got. I rarely send email to my many geneology sites, since I have been unable to find names of ancestors( that I can identify..due to my not knowing much about them) I have copied & pasted Ode to America at the bottom of this page. Charline Killebrew Burress [email protected] :ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Sender = [email protected] Recipient(s) = [email protected];;[email protected];[email protected] Subject = Fw: Tribute Scanning Time = 10/28/2001 17:55:13 Action on virus found: The attachment AMERICANTRIBUTE.exe matched file blocking settings. ScanMail has Deleted it. Warning to recipient. ScanMail has detected a virus.SMEX_MABOSAEXC1_MB;10/28/2001MABOSAEXC1<Unknown>[AMERICANTRIBUTE.exe/Deleted] [email protected], , [email protected], [email protected] [email protected]: Tribute05:55 PMAn American Tribute Bob wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------04BF0E0D7D724E0B7077D015 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > To all: maybe this will shed some light on the Virus problem. > I belong to about 1/2 doz. lists. This is what my Hancock list has said > this evening. > > Bob > It appears that Rootsweb has a virus that is picking up old > messages that we > have sent to the lists, and returning them to us, with our > interesting > subject lines and with a virus attached. > > Do not open any message with an attachment. Remember, it > looks like it came > from the list. > > Delete without opening. > > Julia > > Mary Sue Lutz wrote: > > > > I was talking to the four people who sent me more than one message....and > > started the mess I was in. I don't know anything about viruses....except > > that I didn't receive any attachments! I went back and double checked all > > email, deleted email, etc. There were none there. My virus program says I am > > up-to-date and have no viruses...but I received it from one of four people > > who were on lists....they were the ones I had received and read email from > > and then deleted it.....and the mess started. Then, after going to great > > trouble to make sure I was virus free, I got more email from them and lo and > > behold! I had the thing back again. So, you pray tell, Bob Hays......All I > > know is that I haven't received any more email from the four since the > > second time I checked out my system...and I am not having the problem. So, > > calm down, get your little fingers off of the caps key and go to bed.... > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Robert Hays" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 6:52 PM > > Subject: Re: [RICHARDSON] virus > > > > > 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 ----- Ode to America. We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about us, the USA. ~ Editorial from Romanian Newspaper When you think the U.S. isn't thought well of all over the world, read this editorial from a Romanian Newspaper. ~An Ode to America. Why are Americans so united? They don't resemble one another even if you paint them! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs, not even God can count how many they are. Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!". Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different TV channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Silvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul. What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert. I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests. I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to bow before a fellow human? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy. What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like common places. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion. Only freedom can work such miracles!