At 09:21 �� 3/2/2002 +0000, you wrote: >I am sorry I have discovered that the BadTrans virus had infected my >machine. My apologies if I have infected someone else, but I think I picked >it up through the group originally, so there is probably someone else with >the problem. Fortunately it was no more than a couple of days, but that is >long enough to do damage. > >BE WARNED! This is a new version of the worm that was not detected in >several scans, even with recent scanning software, that I did after getting >the suspicious email with a ql-users subject line. I became more suspicious >when, during routine maintenance, my hard disk seemed more fragmented than >usual. It was only after I had downloaded the latest definitions that I >finally tracked it down. > >Again my apologies for any trouble caused. > >Geoff Wicks
Hi Geoff, the singular MOST important thing you need to do to get rid of worms of that kind is.... to get rid of Outlook you are using :-) You wouldn't have any trouble with Eudora for example :-) Phoebus
