Hi, Cindy. There's something about viruses that everyone needs to know. Just because an email address seems to come from an address you think you know doesn't mean that it really came from that address, and more importantly, it doesn't even mean that person with that address has a virus. When someone gets a virus, that virus attaches itself to any email addresses it finds on the computer, and they're able to send out viruses, making it look like it came from any one of those addresses when it really didn't. This means that, even if the address looks familiar, that doesn't mean that's the person with the virus. I hope this made sense. *smile* I've gotten pretty good at telling whether something is a virus based on several things. First, if the subject line looks strange, I delete it, attachment or not. Second, if the attachment is pretty sizable, I delete it, and if the address looks like one I know and there is an attachment but I'm not expecting it, I write the person from within a new, separate message to find out if they sent me something before I opened it. Take care. Julie Morales inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email): mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: mercy0421 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 10:18 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Warning? Viruses from benetech? Today I received in my Bulk Mail (where suspected SPAM goes) a message from benetech.org. The from address was Info@xxxxxxxxxxxx,and the subject was my password -- as an attachment. I deleted it, along with the other items (I've never received so many before) in the bulk mail (12) because it looked suspicious to me. There was one item yesterday I did open--I clicked on the attachment because the from address was one I recognized and, more important, because my mail checks attachments first for viruses. Sure enough, the attachment contained a virus and my mail (Yahoo) wouldn't open it, so I was safe. I suspect the benetech.org item had a virus, and if any of you openedit or anything similar, you mayhave the virus and it may have attached itself to all your outgoing mail.. If the benetech message about my password is legit, Marissa, please let us know. Cindy R Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html