I've noticed that the lists have been real inactive lately which I figured was due to all the virus attacks. I think a lot of people have unsubscribed temporarily. I've thinking of unsubscribing my real email address, and resubscribe using my Yahoo.com email address that way I can just check messages online and not have the virus attempting to rearrange my configurations. I think we can blame Microsoft for much of this. The Mac systems never seem to have these problems. I should have gotten a Mac years ago even though I don't like them. -----Original Message----- From: buzzybee [mailto:buzzybee@prodigy.net] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:45 AM To: William Boswell; WashingtonDC-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WashingtonDC'' ] OT: Frequent Virus Attacks Hi Bill, Yes, I too am getting numerous emails with the Bugbear virus attachment, and it's a real pain. Most of the addresses coming in are unfamiliar to me, but one of them was a direct copy off of someone who is on the New River mailing list -- his initials were copied so it looked like it was coming from him, and the email address was his only the server name was changed. He knew nothing about it, and his computer was clean, so it was someone who had copied his user name and address to do it and it went out to everyone on the mailing list. I'm sure the problem is that when we post to the list, our address goes into everyone's computer, and then if they get a virus, we're in there and sitting ducks. I think that's why so many people have quit responding publicly on the lists, and only reply privately. It's a shame, because it undoes the purpose of the lists. I've been tempted at times to unsubscribe from lists, also. What I did was re-evaluate my lists, and looked at the benefit I got from them versus the pain of this virus thing. I do have Norton, and it does trap the viruses, it's just a pain to get the warning screen every time one comes in. So what I did was dump all the lists I really wasn't getting that much out of, and kept only a select few important ones. That at least keeps it at a minimum. Actually, I'm convinced the mailing lists are at the bottom of many of my getting so many spam messages, too...... Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: William Boswell To: WashingtonDC-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:15 PM Subject: [WashingtonDC'' ] OT: Frequent Virus Attacks Lately I've been getting a lot of virus-infected emails, but cannot figure out which list they are coming from. Fortunately, I keep my virus definitions up-to-date, but someone out there has an infected computer and doesn't know it. For your own sake, it might be wise to update your definitions (Norton, McAfee, or another program) and run a scan of your computer. This is what my Norton Anti-Virus reported: Date: 10/10/2002, Time: 11:03:50, HP Pavilion on BOSWELL The email attachment Bossier Facts.doc.scr is infected with the W32.Bugbear@mm virus. The file was quarantined. The attachment is probably not the real name as these worms are clever. This is the address it said the infected file came from (this may not be real either): sreveley@ns.gemlink.com. Thank you, and sorry this is off topic, but I'd like to know if anyone else is having the same problems since I'm very tempted to remove my name from all lists. Bill Boswell ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237