To all of my friends and fellow researchers, Please read this carefully! It appears that a virus has infected one of you or all of us. This virus has the ability to read your e-mail address book and send out e-mail to everyone in it. The e-mail isn't so pleasant. On the other hand, it comes to you as if it were a real e-mail, "From" someone you know....."To" your e-mail name.....and the text is always blank, but it has a download attachment! The title of the attachment is "Me_Nude." Please keep in mind that the "Me" isn't myself nor is it you :) , but some stupid prank. I did not open it because I knew the persons' e-mail name and also knew the person. This happened three times! I knew all three people and knew that they would never send me nude pictures. I scanned the e-mails with my Mc Afee Virus Scan. It is a VIRUS! Do not open the attachment! I had a discussion with a Technical Service person from AOL. I was told that so long as this e-mail attachment isn't opened, but deleted instead, we should all be safe. If in doubt, please go to McAfee's web site. They have a free trial version for you to use to eliminate this threat! Click here >>>> <A HREF="http://www.mcaffee.com/">McAfee Virus Scan Free Trial.</A> Thanks for taking the time to read this message. If you have any other questions, please e-mail me at djnsl@aol.com. Put "Virus Alert" in the subject box. Thanks so much. Dennis J. Cook

I strongly recommend that in addition to the basic virus scan systems it is a good idea to spend a bit more and get a Firewall. Instead of identifying viruses and battling to get rid of them then looking for the damage, now we get warning messages that they have been blocked. Our Firewall tells us the exact time, the number of attacks and by how many remote computers, the type of virus and gives the Remote Computer Address. Then - a totally free system called SamSpade allows us to trace the Remote URL. So now we can find 90% of the hackers and report them to their Internet Service Providers. The really hotshot hackers can do a 'bounce' and make it look as though the virus came from someone elses's system but most are just bored kids playing with machines. >