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You can avoid any viruses inadvertantly sent by list members if you will click on the Suspend Parkinsn Mail button on the Parkinsn Email List Message page and keep up with your parkinsn mail by reading it on P-I-E-N-O. You will still be able to post messages but you mailbox will be free of inadvertant viruses. http://www.parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/parkmail/maill ist.html MESSAGES READ ON P-I-E-N-O THAT CONTAINED VIRUSES WILL HAVE A WHITE BACKGROUND. The process of converting the messages to HTML, for the webpages, strips all of the virus. If you read your Parkinsn mail on P-I-E-N-O instead of the single message or digest from the listserv you are protected from viruses. If you buy a new anti-virus program, during the install process it will ask you if you are installing the program because of a virus. If you have a virus, select the "Make Emergency Disk" option. After the program installs and you have an emergency disk, put the emergency disk in your floppy drive and restart your computer. It will clean any viruses detected before windows loads. This is the only way some viruses can be eradicated. When Windows does boot, run the virus program and select for it to check ALL files. Some viruses replicate themselves and infect other types of files rather than just program files. This infection can multiply geometrically depending on how often you start your computer. Most anti-virus programs provide the definitions for a year..after that you have to pay for them or upgrade to the newer version of the program. In the worst case, your machine will quit working and every file on the hard drive will be corrupted. If you catch it early and not have one of the fatal viruses, even if you don't have a current anti-virus program, one that is free, is available on the web. HouseCall is at the following address. It will download some temporary files to your computer that will run an anti-virus program. After download, at the box at the bottom of the webpage, your drives will be listed. click on the ones you want checked. Not wanting to be more redundant..:) read the instructions below. One other thing. If you have ever found a virus on your machine before with an anti-virus program and it was put in quarantine rather than deleted..it is still on your hard drive and house call will report it. Just tell HouseCall to delete it. How to use HouseCall: http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp When HouseCall finishes loading, you will see a 'window' above showing all the disk drives on your computer. Select the disk drive(s) or directories you would like to scan. Click the 'Scan' button to start. (You can continue to browse the web while HouseCall is scanning.) If HouseCall finds a virus, it will list its name, as well as the name of the infected file(s). > Click on the virus name to learn more about the virus > Click on the 'Clean' button to remove the virus. If the virus cannot be cleaned, HouseCall will give you the option to delete the infected file. Having trouble? 1. Check the Frequently Asked Questions file. It is located at: http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/faq_corp.htm Check your Browser: To use HouseCall, you will need to have either Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 3.02 or above) or Netscape Navigator (version 3.01 or above).