WvB> Sircam virus! Don't open the attachment but delete it. If you need a WvB> programme to check or disinfect your machine, go to: www.symantec.com WvB> Willem van Bork I have given up on virus check/disinfect software. These always interfere somehow with the way my machine works, they are expensive, and their purchase turns into a rental arrangement after six months once the manufacturer begins to extort a yearly fee for virus definition updates. Virus paranoia is certainly big business for some. I am using a small program called zonealarm from www.zonelabs.com Zonealarm is free for home use, fully enabled, and nagless. It is not an anti-virus utility but rather a firewall. It includes a feature called mailsafe that examines incoming email attachments, renames those with the extensions .exe .vbs and .com, then "quarantines" them. You then have several options of what to do with them, and they would be difficult to open by accident. I highly recommend using zonealarm. Firewalls prevent outsiders from accessing your on-line machine and using it for a variety of nefarious ends. Yesterday I received three virus bearing attachments from two different lists. It is a normal week. Zonealarm kept them securely muzzled until I got around to deleting them. The only virus infection I have ever had was a word macro virus and these will not be caught by zonealarm. You can protect yourself from them by turning off one of MS Word's "features". -- Best regards, Omar mailto:[log in to unmask] To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/