Dear Robert L. Ward, Is this a fact and if it is, how do we protect ourselves from it? What e-mails are we suppose to delete? Thank you , Maureen -----Original Message----- From: Jeanne Muse <jwmuse@compuserve.com> To: WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, October 28, 2000 3:10 PM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Worm Virus Hit our List!! >Dear Whitneys: I just retrieved a long string of e-mail messages and >was reviewing them in my software, Outlook Express. One of them, from >our >list, from INFECTED with a virus - as my Norton >Anti-virus software caught immediately and gave me the option to delete >it. It reported that an ActiveX control was bad. > >I have experience with this virus - WScript.KAKWorm. It attachs itself >as a hidden signature to any outgoing email message using Outlook >Express. People don't usually know they have it or are spreading it to >others until it is too late. A tell-tale sign is a weird error message >that appears when Windows starts. You can also check your Signature (in >the Tools menu) to see if the box at the bottom for File is checked. If >it is, you are infected! > >BEWARE -- If you don't have anti-virus software installed on your >computer, get some now. The virus/worms that I have heard about most >recently are DEADLY and can crash your computer and disable Windows >permanently, causing a complete loss of data! > >Also - go to Windows Update on Microsoft's Update pages and get any >upgrades to Outlook Express, especially those concerning security >issues, like ActiveX controls. > >Jeanne > > > >

Maureen and WRG, At 07:51 PM 10/28/00 -0700, Maureen wrote: >Dear Robert L. Ward, > Is this a fact and if it is, how do we protect ourselves from it? What >e-mails are we suppose to delete? >Thank you , >Maureen While I cannot be certain, this may be so. I don't use Outlook for e-mail, but Eudora instead. I use McAfee VShield for virus protection. This program, when updated with the latest data files, can detect the said worm and remove it without damage. Occasionally I have gotten messages that this process was working on an infected message, but it doesn't tell me which message or from whom it came. Usually I don't care, so I don't go on a virus hunt. This hasn't happened to me in the last week or so. In short, I can't tell you what e-mails to delete. If you don't have an anti-virus program, you should buy one and use it, and keep updating it with the latest data files. Probably Michael Whitney, the list owner, would be the person to contact for more information. His e-mail is <WhitneyMR@aol.com>. I haven't had much luck getting him to respond to e-mail, unfortunately! His home page has address <http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/h/i/Michael-R-Whitney/>. His snail-mail address and phone number (from that page) are: Michael R. Whitney, 570 Range View Trail, Golden, CO 80401, 303-526-0252. I hope this helps. Others with better information are urged to supply it. Regards, Robert Robert L. Ward WHITNEY Research Group <http://www.whitneygen.org/>