Gale, You brought something to my attention that I had forgotten and I think its entirely possible that you are correct with most of the viruses people get. However, I have NOT received a response to my email noting the virus infected file and have received ANOTHER email with a virus corrupted file from the same screen name. Therefore I think my suspicions have been confirmed.   Therefore I suggest that anyone receiving a message from Cunningham1234 should be very leery of opening a file without checking for a virus first. Susan In a message dated 5/6/01 4:21:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gideong@ix.netcom.com writes: > Most of the virus we recieve by mail are worms and are sent by the virus to > our > email addresses and the person that has the virus isn't aware of it.. in > this > case perhaps he/she is cleaning the computer up before emailing anyone else. > > Gale Prince Nash > > Sbocko3001@aol.com wrote: > > > I also received an email message containing a file with a virus from > someone > > who said they had read a message on the Wilson Co. list.  I wrote the > person > > back saying that the file was contaminated and to please just copy what > > he/she wanted me to receive within an email, but heard nothing further. > > > > Additionally I just received an email from Cunningham1234 on the Benton > Co., > > Arkansas mail list containing a file with a virus.  Again I wrote back > saying > > that I couldn't read the file because it contained a virus and heard > nothing > > further from that person. > > > > Perhaps it is paranoia but it seems to me that if I sent a corrupted file > to > > someone and they notified me as such that I would again write them, send > the > > material in a different format.  The fact that this didn't happen makes me > > suspicious that someone is trying to pull a prank. > > > > Susan >