Fellow Listers, Today I was the proud owner of a anti virus device. While it was scanning all my files and folders,I read this about "the worm" This is an Internet worm that uses .bat files to search through a range of IP addresses of known ISPs to find an accessible computer. If a accessible computer shares its C drive, it copies its files onto the other computer. Thank you for being such a good and informed list, Maureen -----Original Message----- From: WhitneyMR@aol.com <WhitneyMR@aol.com> To: WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, October 29, 2000 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Worm Virus Hit our List!! >Hello Folks, > >There have been a couple of attempts to infect Rootsweb lately but Rootsweb >says it believes it has caught them. The Bell list is the only list that it >got through on, the worms are named KAK and pretty park. They only infect >Microsoft Outlook's address book all other e-mail programs are not affected. >It's odd that Jeanne was the only one that received it. Makes me think it >might have come from outside the list. > > If you are using Outlook you should be careful to keep a good Anti-virus >loaded because almost all address book attacks take place against Outlook. > >Michael Whitney > >