Please forgive this non-genealogy post, but it affects us all and I thought it important to share. This information comes from the head of the Technology Department in our corporation. He sent a two-page email to all in the company which (in brief) states that numerous sources have promised to unleash 500-1000 new viruses as part of their New Year's celebration. More than 30,000 threats have been logged by the FBI and other agencies. Because these are new viruses they are not yet all detectable by virus programs. Of particular concern are greeting cards. They warn of receiving viruses via friends who are unaware they are spreading them. The company is recommending that we back up everything, make sure our virus protection programs are updated and running and they ask us not to download anything or open any attachments (unless absolutely necessary) for the first few weeks of 2000 until updates for these new viruses can be created. I generally ignore messages such as this (many are untrue), but given the sources and documentation of this one, I thought I would share it. Again, I apologize for the nature of this post, but felt it important to keep us all informed. It seems we have fixed the Y2K bug, but seem to have a world full of hackers who think it fun to celebrate by destroying our work! Candy Parent Tazewell County, VAGenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~vatazewe Candy's Clan http://www.htonline.com/~candy candy@htonline.com