Bill, One statement you made about these viruses is not correct. You said don't open e-mails from people you don't know. The fact is, most viruses send themselves to everyone, one at a time, in your address book. The message could be from your best friend and they wouldn't even know they sent it. A note on trojan horse viruses, we once had one on our computer and apparently it was a "spy" that sent its originator any private information on your computer (passwords, credit card #'s etc.). For this reason we don't use credit cards or put private info like bank accounts on our computer. Norton did clean up the one we had. Generally you have to open an e-mail attachment to receive a virus. Ray Garland ----- Original Message ----- From: The Taylors <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:12 PM Subject: [TNOBION] Unknown Trojan Horse Virus > Hi All, > > Picked up a Virus from somewhere yesterday! It had no name and Norton's > AntiVirus did not catch it, nor had they heard of it. A neighbor just told > me that this was the second time he had heard of exactly the same thing > happening. His friend said that that hard drive could not be saved and they > had to buy a new one. I had downloaded new anitvirus programs a day before > so was up to date- supposedly. > > The Virus made my computer screen go blue and said there was an error. The > message was "Disk Write Error. Unable to write to disk in Drive C. Data or > files may be lost. Press any key to continue." Hitting the key would get > away from the blue screen, but it would come back in a minute or two. I > could not save anything to the hard drive. > > It was "Locked" the same as you can do with a diskette, but this would not > allow "Unlocking." > > I could download information to save it however! It would not let me format > the hard drive either. I had to format my hard drive from the original disk > and write 0's over all the informatin to make sure the virus was deleted. > > There was no warning of this virus, and no anti-virus warning message. > Norton had not heard of it. Where I picked it up is a mystery. It took about > 12 hours of frustration to undoo this. It is up and running again. Hackers > are delighted by all this, why I will never know! > > Solution - I don't really know. Just don't open e-mail from people you don't > know. Hard to do, I know. Get a good anti-virus program and keep it updated! > Norton's said update at LEAST twice a month. > > Bill > > PS; A Trojan Horse Virus is a virus sent attached to a seemingly innocent > message. When opened up it puts the Virus in your computer. Some Viruses > change names every time you open a file, and attach to it. They also attach > themselves to sent e-mail and spread from there. > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >