You have probably heard about this but I want to send it out anyway. Most of these Virus Alerts we hear about are not valid but this one is REAL. The main protection from the virus is to NOT open the "I Love You" file that is attached to the e-mail received. Most of the Virus Protection centers are working on a fix for it and some are up on the web as of now. These only work if you have this special virus-fix program on your computer. There are probalby others on the list that can direct us to those fixit sites. My school got hit hard with the virus this morning. It was spread in an e-mail message that came from (of all places) our computer IT group. It went to everyone at the school and was sent out again by many. Of course since many of us are on the mailing lists of each other, some received it several times, and was even sent back to the IT department. They had to shut down the computer e-mail system and clean the files one computer at a time in order to stop the "looping." Anyone that uses Outlook will send the virus on to others automatically. So just because you catch it the first time, it will probably be back. I don't think that it will be sent automatically if you use Netscape for your mail. So, over the next week or so, be on the lookout for ANY ATTACHMENTS that you receive. Since the virus comes in e-mails from someone that you know, don't open them. Delete it immediately and then go to your "trash" bin or file and clean it as well. Noel Matthews noelm@noelm.com