Warnings about this virus are beginning to show up on genealogical mailing lists. I am posting this to hopefully stem the flood. Regards, Rob Roy ======================================================== INFOWORLD ALERT: SECURITY ALERT ======================================================== Wednesday, May 30, 2001 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - E-MAIL VIRUS HOAX MAKES USERS DO THE DIRTY WORK May 30, 2001 02:39 PM IN THE LATEST perverse trickery pulled off by someone taking pleasure in computer users' pain, a fake virus warning is circulating by e-mail asking people to delete an innocuous and uninfected executable Microsoft Windows file and then to pass the warning on to others. For Full Story: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/05/30/010530hnhoax.xml?0530alert