Hi, everyone!
This is your co-listowner, Barbara.
We pride ourselves in putting our e-mail correspondence ahead of everything
else. Under normal circumstances, we try to get back to you as soon as
possible.
But we want you to know that you may not get a response to a message you
send because of the extreme virus threats attacking computers today. In
particular, the "SirCam" virus which sends a message saying something like,
"Hi (or how are you). I send this file because I want your advice," the
"Snow White" virus, and the "empty message" virus. You may not even
know
that you are sending a virus along with your mail. Each threat appears with
an attachment in the form of an executable file (a file whose extension is
.exe)
SCAN your computer with a good virus software--if you don't have one, go to
http://www.antivirus.com and click on free tools, then on Housecall...
THEN
PLEASE follow these two simple rules and ask all your friends to follow them
as well:
1. When sending an attachment of any kind to anyone, tell them in the
message that you
are attaching something [a document, a photo, etc.]
2. Give them the name of the file you're sending as an attachment
There's no threat from any RootsWeb-based ListServ such as this one.
There's a filter in place that will not allow any attachments to be sent to
the list...
But if you send us personal correspondence and don't get a reply, you'll
know we trashed it because of an attached executable file. In that case,
please do a virus scan immediately and follow your software's instructions
for cleaning the virus.
Barbara
seawolf(a)selfroots.com
http://www.selfroots.com
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http://www.history.rootsweb.com/~lighthouses
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~selffam/daddy/index.htm
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