Let us not turn this into Anti-Virus-L@rootsweb.com BUT...once in a while some of us need the help of the techie types to stay alive and active on the lists, because that is where the matter is floating to the surface, like swamp gas! On the heels of Roy's excellent article re: BadTrans meanies. If you know the affixes ___ . ___ .___ and set your mail filter to intercept them this is an extra assurity of protection. The SARC, Symantec Anti-Virus Research Centre, will make these available to you as will any anti-virus program that auto-loads updates, especially those who send you e-mail notices of update availability. Remember, a-v programs only stop viruses they do not protect you from prankster or jokester programs, and what I call nuisance programs or spam mail. That must be done by you and manually. Roy game an excellent plan for Office and MS, the below is a repeat of the message for Netscape I sent out yesterday, but which has appeared to not have reached you. The following just came down my drain pipe from one of the above addressed site sources. Be aware. There is no attachment, just an address to be lured to. This is unsolicited nuisance spam and will be dealt with as such. The only way this occurs, is if the listers' names are somehow picked up by the sender and thus the "spamming" begins. Another prankster spam-us! NOT A VIRUS. ----------------------------- Subject: (None) Date: 29 Apr 02 5:02:18 AM From: gh55hghg@winning.com ----------------------------- In Netscape stop it by going to Edit, Message Filters, and then filling in the appropriate fields as you see fit. Or, fill in the fields as follows: Filter Name...your choice From...the "sender" of the message "contains" [fill in the above address next]... [gh55hghg@winning.com] Then "move to folder" "Trash" It now will never see the light of day on your computer! Empty trash as usual at the end of every session. Find it? If so the filter is working. If not then it has not reached you. When you have a moment visit your Filter Log file to see just what your filters are doing and if they are working for you. You can stop a lot of nuisance mail in this very simple fashion. Now, as to how to do this in MS IExplorer...I shall leave that to the experts in use of that medium. Happy hunting...Al Dempster Sheila wrote: > > In a tech newsletter, I got the following info on that virus: > > Ed Bott > The Wizard of IZ >