I'm writing this to every email list that I manage. My computer was recently infected with a virus named Prettypark.exe. It is a email worm but it also has some severe things in it that I feel I need to warn you about. This is not a hoax virus alert. I do this stuff for a living and this one is real. Do a search on one of the multi-engine search sites and see for your self. I got an email from an old acquaintance who I know did not suspect that this email was even going out. This virus is like the Happy99.exe virus that locks onto your email file and sends out email without your knowledge with an attachment named Prettypark.exe. If you click on the attachment it is too late. It takes your email and it also tries to send some of your files (credit card #, passwords etc...) and sends them to a chat room type of thing in France. The person who wrote this apparently wanted to rip someone off and spent a lot of time setting this up. http://www.hill.house.upenn.edu/virus/virus.html Do a search on your system for a file named files32.vxd If it exists you are infected. Go to the web page above and follow the directions. Again, never send an attachment via the list. And if you get an attachment with an exe extension that YOU DID NOT ASK FOR, DO NOT CLICK ON IT. It is better by far to be safe than sorry. If anyone has received an email from me with an attachment name prettypark.exe I did not send it, this virus has sent it and I had no way of knowing it. I think everyone should have some kind of protection against viruses and it does not cost that much to have a good one and keep it up to date. I had let mine get a month old and that is not my policy but it happened. Ron McCandless