I'm reposting this to the top of the BB (with a spell-checked edit) because I believe it is extremely important! I'm making a larger percentage of my personal income as a result of the internet every year, and as I become more reliant on this method of communication and information (that's what I "sell" by working as a reporter), the intentional disruption of the medium becomes more criminal with each occurrence. People used to ask me why I took two laptops with me to the races. Now they don't.

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In Response To: Has Anyone Heard of Ralph & Betsy Hahn?? (Rick Schwarz)

You don't have to open the attachment for the virus to infect your computer! Clicking on an email from a familiar name sets the damn thing off! I'm trying to get rid of it right now. Norton DIDN'T detect it when I got the email Thursday. Neither did it detect it tonight, even after doing a live update! It does have an attachment, but I would only think that opening it is worse than just clicking on an email message.

IF MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS STORED ON YOUR COMPUTER IN A MICROSOFT EMAIL ADDRESS BOOK, PLEASE REMOVE IT NOW!!!!

I quit maintaining an address book on Outlook Express almost two years ago, because the way these viruses spread is by sending themselves to everyone in your address book, and you don't even know that it happened until you have a bunch of PO'd friends with new computer problems! Keep your mailing lists somewhere separate on your computer, somewhere that these viruses couldn't find them without knowing exactly what file you have them in. Copy them onto a text file page and save that page in your documents or whatever. When you need to email anyone or everyone on the list, cut and paste those addresses into the "to" part of your email.

....I'm not sure, but this virus appears to have Norton's number. Norton knows about it and has removal instructions on their website, but for some reason, my computer has been trying to use Norton AntiVirus in an OUTBOUND mode according to my firewall protection!

This is some nasty crap!
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html

Bob