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I've received two different titled attachments which I assume have viruses.
The names of the two files are: YOU_ARE_FAT!.mp3.scr and HAMSTER.DOC.pif
The two things these files have in common with each other are:
1. there are two periods in the file name
2. they are both the same size file, 29,020 bytes
Please check what you are going to download. If you are suspicious of the
name of the file, even if it is from your Mother, email the person who sent
it to you and check that they really wanted you to have it before downloading
it.
Bob Sanders
There is a new and improved computer virus spreading through rootsweb listing
called badtrans. If it gets on one's computer it steals email addresses out
of your address book and spreads itself via the address. Unless you know for
sure what you are downloading, DO NOT download attachments. The attachments
that are infected will have wierd names, like hamster.doc.pif or something in
that vein. Most downloads don't have two dots in them, so please be careful.
Below is rootsweb's reply to my question to them about the problem:
Hi Bob,
This current version of the badtrans virus is really nasty. It "steals"
an address it finds in the infected computer to hide behind. So the address
used is not necessarily the address it came from. We are so swamped with
these, that we really can not take the time to search the headers for you.
Sorry. The best thing to do is to post to your entire list warning that
some list members are infected. Please say that the infected person doesn't
know it (some people get really mad and try to punish the infected person)
and that everyone should not open an attachment and should have a good
anti virus program. This link should help too:
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/announce.html#badtrans
D.
In a message dated 10/31/01 8:00:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
CHILDRESS-RESEARCH-D-request(a)rootsweb.com writes:
> http://www.jameskpolk.com/JKPSCP2.GIF
> Hi, I copied the picture but Sara is not one of my favorite Childresses, I
> was disappointed to read that she did not have much substance, was flighty
> and not too admirable. That could be wrong, and she had no children. I
> did some time in court house in Princeton and they do have some wills about
> the Childresses that I hope to check more closely another time. I was so
> tired from lifting those heavy rolls down sometimes from heights and they
> were dirty, myblouse was soiled. I went back to the cemetery , Nancy is
> not Nancy B, I must have thought a J was a B. My sister took her camera
> and we took some shots. I'll know later if they turn out., The cemetery
> is very neglected, trees across many of the graves, briars everywhere. I
> found James Anderson Childress's daughter Sarah Elmit that married a Faughn
> buried there(1859-1906). The first one buried there seems to be
Nancy,. it says My Wife Nancy and birth and death. Then Wm. and after Wm
Childress, there is sen. and his dates. There are foot stones at the 3
graves of Nancy, and 2 Wms. The stones are erect and in good shape. Wm Jr.
has a Mason sign at the top of his stone. Others that I could read include:
Marthy dau of RC and M. Childress 1881-1884, Sarah wife of C.H.
Thompson(1849-1893), a stone beside Sarah Elmit says Father Thomas E.
Childress (1857-1900), Mary Jane Davis(1890-1903) there was a Mary Jane
Childress from Princeton that married a Barney Davis so I figured this was
their daughter 13 years. Another one says My Wife Nancy J. B.F.Etheridge, we
have one that married a Etheridge but it was George Etheridge, then there was
a child's stone (1892-1902) At least burials were still occurring there as
late as 1906. I have to run. Dot
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