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Would one of the more computer literate among you please take pity on me - and others I am sure - and tell me what in the heck to do with this Kak Worm virus? There have been a lot of messages about it. The Final Answer -please? I caught it from someone - I believe I know who but I haven't told him yet - last December. I had a friend come over and he ran a DOS program of some kind that took 6 hours 48 minutes to finish. At about the 6 hour mark it found 3 infected files and deleted them. One of them was the Signature file, that allows you to click your name address, etc. at the end of your e-mail. I know that because whenever thereafter I clicked on New Mail, to compose a message for someone I got a message that this file was no longer there. About 2 weeks later that message disappeared and - sure enough - Kak Worm was back. What to do? I checked my Outlook Express version and I do have an older version - but someone else said that is not the way to fix it. What should I do - first go online and buy Norton's Antivirus? Will that do it? Will it expunge the virus and then prevent it & others from coming back to me.. Do you have to ''run it'' periodically or does it do it automatically? What about updates - do they occur automatically? I have heard that Norton's will seriously slow down your computer. I have only a 300 MHz Pentium II . True, something we will just have to live with? There are a lot of questions here, but this virus seems so easy to transmit that I think a lot of people have it. You DO NOT have to open an .exe file to get it. I sent an e-mail to a friend at a large Army Arsenal here in NJ - it came back with a note that it was being blocked because of Kak Worm,. Thanks, BBA