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First, if you didn't get a chance to run a virus checker through your system and if you have a Windows machine, right click on the "TIME" and reset your calendar AHEAD a couple of days. After 24:00 (midnight) Monday you can set it back to the correct date. Second, there is a wonderful ONLINE virus checker available by those wonderful folks at PC-cillin, an excellent anti-virus program. The site will ask you to load "ActiveX", which is painless. Most folks already have it on their HD. If you don't, you can download it from the site, run it, restart your machine, go back to New Country (you did bookmark it, didn't you?), reclick back to PC-cillin and run the virus checker. It will check your HD for this and a load of other viruses. This particular virus will be active every month so if you have it, you need to get rid of it. This program will do it for you. Go to the New Country Home Page: http://www.newcountry.nu/ and click on the link, a little ways down the page and on the left. Remember, this check is only good until the moment it finishes and you move on to another site. It does NOT protect you later that day, or the next week. To maintain protection you need to have a permanent virus checker installed which will catch a virus as soon as you receive it. Virus Bulletin at: http://www.virusbtn.com/ has a good comparitive review of anti-virus programs, except they are old. There are hundreds of new viruses each month, which is why, if you decide to buy an anti-virus program, you need to have a way to update it each month. When you decide to buy an anti-virus program, you can obtain them, usually at a slight discount, from Barnes and Noble at: http://www.newcountry.nu/books/books.htm or at the dealer's website. If you email me, I'll pass along my recommendations. -- The Official PWP Dumpster Gang Hideout http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/ The PWP WebRing http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=parkie;list The Parkinson Alliance http://www.parkinsonalliance.net/