In a message dated 5/31/01 11:48:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, slredmond@earthlink.net writes: > I had posted a message to the MI-Genealogy list and my message from > (apparently another subscriber) came back to me with the virus > attached. So, even though the Rootsweb lists don't allow attachments, I > got hit because the other person received a message from me (via the > list) and her mail box sent out the virus?!! Does this mean everybody > on the MI List is going to get hit from her? > Sandy- Richard is correct--only the person posting to the list (in this case you) is the lucky recipient of the virus attachment from the list subscriber whose computer is infected. In addition to what Richard advised, you might also want to notify the list admin so that the infected person may be unsubbed until he cleans the virus from his computer. Joan