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There was a big article in the Dallas Moring News about the Melissa virus and how rapidly it spreads, seems it has caused several large corps,.to shut down their email servers.Affects Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express(Windows 98 and some 95).i don't have a computer so I won't have a problem but tho't some of you might. Email infected with the Melissa virus has a topic line that begins "Important Message From.'' Next is a sender's name which is often the name of someone known to recipient.The message says "Here is that document you asked for...don't show anyone else ;-)" Attached to it is 40K Microsoft Word document named list.doc. They say don't open the attachment, opening message will not cause virus to copy address list and send itself out.Disabling macros in MS Word will make it ineffective. For more info Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response team has posted info about Melissa on the web at www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-04- Melissa-Macro-Virus.html/. Microsoft also has a patch available at www.microsoft.corn/security/bulletins/ms 990-002.asp. Sendmail has a patch at www.sendmail.com. I'm send all this for whatever it may be worth. Have fun and BFN. Billie Cook