Posted By Jason Gould Thanks for link. I to have been infected and it seems to be slowing my startup considerably. I hate xp and will have to setup ME cos it is so much more simple. This mydoom virus is also getting into other files so beware as I have recently downloaded some and e+ anti has identified it as corrupted by mydoom. I knew they said it was bad but this is terrible. Good luck all Jason

Posted By peter gotch for the benefit of those of you who do not have the advantage of clever IT people here is the advice from our clever IT people, from 27 January, and update yesterday.... Mydoom is a new virus that travels using e-mail. It harvests email addresses from your hard disk and uses randomly-chosen addresses for both the "to" and "from" fields. This means that the "from" address is false and does not tell you where the mail really came from. W32/MyDoom-A arrives in emails with the following characteristics: Subject lines include: error hello hi mail delivery system mail transaction failed server report status test [random collection of characters] Attachment names include: body data doc document file message readme test [random collection of characters] Attachment extensions: bat cmd exe pif scr zip If you receive this email then please delete it immediately without opening & then empty your GroupWise trash. If you have already received this email & your antivirus has not detected the threat (it should display a message if an infected file is detected) then please seek assistance from the IT Helpdesk. Systems Department ou will be aware of recent press coverage of the MyDoom virus. This virus is responsible for a 30% increase in internet email traffic. Consequently, internet email servers are under a 30% greater load than before and this has resulted in delays. This problem is global in scale and is out with the control of Babtie. You may be aware of emails that you have sent that still have status "Pending". This is due to the server timing out after a set period. You may need to re-send these emails. If you are sending an important email you cannot assume that it will get sent on time; you must check the status is "transferred" to be sure that the email has been sent over the internet and if the email is critical you should check with the receiver to confirm its delivery. Regards, Systems Department Regards, Peter

Posted By Jason Gould What about outlook express, does this program auto open your mail as I seem to always be able to preview contents? No ammount of risk assessments or risk analysis would forsee the effects of me a boot and this virus creators backside? Hacked off Jason

Posted By John Murgatroyd Fortunately, AOL screens all email for known viruses. And my av vendor supplied an upgrade within a day. The commonest source for the virus is prats downloading via peer-to-peer file tranfers, such as Kazaa. To make things difficult, there are two versions...A and B. Any emails with subject lines as: Mail Transaction Failed Unable to deliver the message Status Delivery Error Mail Delivery System hello hi Error Server Report Returned mail should be deleted..... unless you usually make a cock-up of sending emails, in which case you're up the creek without a paddle. To make things even more fun, the A package turns off some virus detectors !!