When this happends, the person whose name is on the Line, who sent it, has no idea that it hash appened, it goes through there entire address book and sends it to everyone they corresponds with the person has no clu this has happen, you must have a very good Virus catcher with one of those it stops it or allows you to delete it and it says the same thing at the bottom About opening this attachment some have to go and have someone fix the computer, folks with a good virus scanner, will be notified when it comes and DO NOT OPEN IT OR ANY ATTACHMENTS contact the person who sent it, and let them know there computer is doing this, delete it from your files but there is no way that person who sent it even knows it has happened. thanks this happened to me, as I am on several mailing lists, it usually comes from personal email At 10:12 PM 5/29/2001 -0400, Judy Prince wrote: >Several times I have gotten replies to my posts from this person. They attach a virus file. It seems very intentional. They use the name Charlie and Chris Woods and reply privately to a post. At the bottom they have a message that reads "Take a look to the attachment". > >I learned the hard way (down for three weeks) not to open these files but, others might not be as well educated. This is the address that it shows when I look at the properties of the message: > >hcjwoods@alltel.net > > > >==== WOODS Mailing List ==== >No part of these messages nor the archives file containing them may be published >or redistributed in any form by a "FOR PROFIT" or commercial organization. All >publication requires the permission of each message author. > > > God Bless Lynda