There's another nasty v*rus on the loose which is slowing down and gumming up the Internet - Nimda. A copy has already come my way, lucky me, and it looks like the attachment to email is usually called "readme.exe". I hope all of you know to NEVER click on such an attachment no matter who it's from. Be sure to update your virus definitions files for your anti-virus software so that you don't get inadvertently hit by this thing. I don't have the URLs for all AV software vendors, but the most popular are McAfee and Norton, soooo... For McAfee Anti-virus updates: http://www.mcafee.com/ For Norton (Symantec) Anti-virus updates: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ Just a reminder: the folks at Rootsweb do a fabulous job of preventing these things from spreading via the mailing lists. It's the major reason why they do not allow attachments to list postings. Any email which appears to be a reply to a post and which has an attachment should be regarded with deep suspicion for it could not have been sent to you via the normal list! Victoria