Folks, Like the others have said this is a hoax and the instructions given will cause you to delete a necessary operating system file. It's called the "sulfnbk.exe hoax" and you can find info on it and lots of other hoaxes at McAfee's site (or any other antivirus company site) http://vil.nai.com/VIL/hoaxes.asp Most email viruses are in attachments to email and the Rootsweb servers will *not* forward mail with attachments. Therefore there is no known way for you to get a virus from WiMilwau list mail. However, you can get a virus from private off list email between subscribers, and if it is a private response to list mail it may carry the prepend and subject line and look at first glance like harmless list mail. The Badtrans viruses are fairly famous for that. Be careful with the off list mail. Bob Fay On 31 Dec 2001 at 22:08 Everyones Internet <WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com> wrote: > ATTN: Virus Alert: > > Dear Family and Friends in my address book, > > Just FYI for protection, > > I received this email from a friend and after I did this > check I had found I DID HAVE the virus, just by receiving > their email!!. Please do this simple check and follow the > instructions. Hopefully there has not been any damage. > Love Pam > > Dear all, > Many apologies for this, but I have picked up a virus that > is transmitted automatically via address books. The virus > is not detected by McAfee or Norton, and lies dormant for 14 > days before it then closes down your entire system. The > attached letter is a simple yet effective method of finding > and deleting the virus before it can do you any harm. > Please act PROMPTLY , the directions for removing it are > easy. > > 1. Go to 'start' - then to 'find' or 'search' (depending on > you computer.) 2. In the 'search for files or folders' type > in sulfnbk.exe--this is the virus. 3. In the 'look in' make > sure you're searching Drive C 4. Hit 'search' button ( or > find) 5. If this file shows up (it's an ugly blackish icon > that will have the name 'sulfnbk.exe') DO NOT OPEN > IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 6. Right click on the file-go down to > delete and left click. 7. It will ask you if you want to > send it to the recycle bin, say YES. 8. go to your desktop > (where all the icons are) and double click on sulfnbk.exe > and delete again or empty the bin. 9. Right click on > sulfnbk.exe and delete again or empty the bin. > > If you find it send this email to all in your address book, > because that's how it's transferred. > > (Not sure if need to send to this person. . you can let me > know. . . . Pam!!) > > Check to see if you got this and let me know Thanks > Nowery Smith > Challenger Process Systems > Off:281-578-5775 > Fax:281-578-5069 > E-mail: nsmith14@houston.rr.com > > > > > > ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== > For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list > information, please see > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > > ============================== > 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=1 > 237 > >