HI Folks, There have been messages from Rootsweb this past week to some of the mailing lists, but not all, about the Virus attachments that appear to be coming from the Rootsweb mailing lists. A word of caution, you do not receive any messages from Rootsweb with attachments to them. Rootsweb's servers treat all messages with attachments as spam and automatically deletes them. If you receive and message that appears to come from one of the Mailing Lists from Rootsweb and it has an attachment, DELETE it immediately as the attachment contains one of 5 viruses. Some of these viruses appear to do no harm, but they all have an activation date in them and will do harm at the appropriate time. Some have the activation date of 12:01 AM December 24, 1999, 12:01 AM December 25, 1999, and 12:01 AM January 1, 2000, so beware of all attachemnts to your email messages, especially thoses from trusted friends, businesses, and mailing lists. During the past 10 days I have received 29 copies of the viruses. These are the first viruses I have ever received from any place in the two years I have been on the Internet. Two of the mailing lists that appear to be vulnerable to the attachments are the Rootsweb.com and OneList.com. Merry Christmas Every One, Don Stanton TeeSquare@ecr.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <STANTON-L@rootsweb.com> To: <TeeSquare> Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 8:52 AM Subject: STANTON-D Digest V99 #72 > > STANTON-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 72 > > Today's Topics: > #1 RE: Joshua Stanton PA 1794 ["Linda Stanton" <lstanton@kuntryne] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from STANTON-D, send a message to > > STANTON-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > There recently was a message sent regarding the above. > I am VERY interested in a Joshua STANTON of that era. > > HOWEVER, the message I received this week from Rootsweb regarding the > above was a problem. I could not open it. It had a blue screen with > holiday message or something. I got an error message. So I forwarded > it on to my husband at work to see if he could open it. Not only did > he try but he also got a virus from this e-mail. The virus was > "party" originating from Italy on December 14. Very new. > > Now I am sure that our Stanton member was quite unaware of this virus. > He just got it from somewhere else and it attached to his/her e-mail. > The virus is not damaging, and it only attaches through e-mail. Now I > don't know much about these things so am only passing on what a > computer guru told me. I deleted my e-mail and had no problem since I > could not open it. > > Again, I am very interested in this JOSHUA STANTON so please whoever > sent the last message, please resend to me later on. > > Merry Christmas to all you Stantons out there. > Linda > lstanton@kuntrynet.com >