thank you for all this advice - I'll be letting my family know that I keep receiving the messages (but I'd probably have been told if they'd received it) and my antivirus program automatically check disks for viruses whenever they are put in my computer. Lyndell
---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Reminder to check and scan emails for Viruses Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:52:11 -0600 >No problem. I did not know they were Rootsweb groups. Are you getting >a >virus regularly? If the answer is yes, I have four possible >solutions; > >1. I will say this: When my anti virus program finds a virus, it >pauses to >give me email address (which could be faked), subject, and date >before >deleting. If you are keeping your software updated, there is a >feature to >do this somewhere. Turn it on and the next time you get hit with a >virus, >you can see where it is supposedly coming from and investigate >further. > >2. If that is not workable how about this: Unsubscribe from all >except one >and give it a week. I will assume this much- you can log onto some >site and >read the posts so you won't get behind in the other groups. No >viruses, >unsubscribe from that, and subscribe to another. Give that one a >week. This >is time consuming- but it eliminates suspects. I have done this with >a >customer's computer- she was on several Medical lists (also >supposedly >similar policies as Rootsweb), and as it turned out the virus she was > >getting came from one of the hospital lists she was a member of. The >Web >Administrator there corrected the problem. Most Web Administrators >will >investigate if you explain how you decided it came from their site. > >3. You won't like this one, but here goes. Are you sure you are not >replicating the virus? I.e. you send an email with the virus to a >family >member, friend, or colleague and they hit reply to respond to your >email >and you get your own virus back? If this is the case, notify everyone >you >have sent email to and explain there is a chance they received a >virus from >you and that they should conduct a through anti virus scan. > >4. Have you scanned ALL your diskettes, CD-RWs. and CD-Rs for a virus >that >may be copying itself to your computer when you use it? If the answer >is >yes, then I decide if I really had to have the diskette, CD-RW, or >CD-R. If >decide I need it (tax records perhaps, genealogy data?), I take it to > >someone who has a computer set up to remove the virus from the >diskette or >CD-RW. (Some anti virus software cannot remove viruses from CD-Rs.) >Let the >other person take the virus off and the risk be on the other >computer. The >reason I suggest this is IF after all this you still have a virus, it >is >almost certainly in your system. > > >Robert > >At 12/27/2002 02:44 AM, you wrote: >>Sorry to criticise your idea Robert, I failed to mention that all of >>the other lists are Rootsweb and thus should not be allowing >>attachments. >>Lyndell >> >>---- Original Message ---- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Reminder to check and scan emails for >Viruses >>Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 00:47:23 -0600 >> >> >Perhaps we can help narrow the suspects down. It used to be >possible to >> send attachments and/or HTML to the Legacy User list, but it was >> >beginning to geta bit unprofessional. Millennia has set up filters >so >> attachments HTML formatted email and viruses will not make through. > > >Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > >To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > >To unsubscribe please visit: >http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp VUW Student Portal - http://www.studentvuw.ac.nz Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
