Virginia,
Welcome aboard.....I have been receiving the virus emails for a couple of
days also. I wanted to say that I would be willing to take a couple of
counties over. One that I would like to take is Butts County and I just
noticed that the TOC needs updating for a file I submitted a while back. I
could take one or two more if you want to pick them or send me a list of
what is available.
I currently have Fayette County.
Linda Blum-Barton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Crilley" <crilley(a)eramp.net>
To: <GAARCHIVE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 7:33 AM
Subject: [GAARCHIVE] Warning about virus
I've been receiving ALOT of attachments with virus....almost 5 a
day.
The subject can be very deceiving! I had one today "church minutes", and
I
understand others have even had "will of xxx".
Within the message it begins "Hi! How are you?.....then I'm sending you
this file to discuss with you..... See you later.
Usually the attachment is xxx.doc.pif, xxx.doc.lnk,
xxx.xls.xxx, xxx.doc.xxx[whatever]... .bat...
I use Eudora for my mail, but as soon as I see one start to come in, I
stop
it and go to my "on-line" site and delete it before it even
comes through.
I believe a good Virus Protection would find it, but I understand on this
virus, it doesn't come into action until you start to open the attachment.
And that's too late, and too risky for me.
So just be very, very careful. All of us are very vulnerable because we
receive so many attachments.
I really don't feel at all adequate in stepping in for David. He did such
a wonderful job and spent so many hours at this. I'm primarily a "file
manager"....not a group leader....so I just want you all to know that I'm
depending on your, and am very appreciative of your hard work.
Ken Johnson has agreed to help me out with the "stats" each week. If any
of you can take over another county or two, I would really appreciate it.
GAArchives has done so well.....so let's keep up the good work. I welcome
any suggestions you have about the way we do things! David had a
well-oiled
system, which I'm hoping to maintain! If you have any problems,
just write
me....otherwise we'll all just "work" !!
Virginia
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