I needed to tell everyone that if you get an email from me with any attachment do not open it and please delete it. I am not infected (I have a Nortons 2002 and scan clean... Nortons can detect all the new variants of the Klez virus and such worms), but if you get an email that looks like its from me and it has an attachment -- its not from me, and is most likely infected. Let me explain further, there is a Klez spoofing virus in a ferret persons computer that is sending this virus out in my name (unknowingly). This has happened to others as well in the online ferret community (and others!). Let me explain how it works. ex: "John Doe has a virus. His computer sends out the virus to Jane Doe, but the computer gets another name out of John's addie book and makes it like Jane sent it out ( to say someone such as say Jim Smith). So then Jim Smith thinks Jane Doe has sent it when they she did not and it was in fact, John Does computer that did." So be very careful.... it could look like your best friend sent you something (a zip of something, a patch, an execute, or game, etc), but that may not be the case. Okay? It's obvious that its a ferret person in my case, because so far, this thing has only been sent out to ferret people in my name. I have three other account holders and nothing has been sent out in their names in this computer. I have a big addie book with various groups (autism, etc)... ferrets being only one.. and nobody else has gotten anything even in my name. For those of you who are skeptical about me being infected: 1) people have been sent this virus in my name I have never even heard of (people I have no connection to) 2) people have been sent this virus in my name when I was offline and not connected for four days 3) I've changed my passwords and looked at aol addie files for passord stealing trojans, and found nothing 4) There has been no record of any outgoing email from this account in my outgoing folder 5) The Symantec scanner on their site scans clean, as well as Nortons 2002. I just wanted to be sure you all were aware of this. My plain email of course is safe. But I do not send out attachements unless I am planning on sending a photos (which is rare). So if you see one, don't open it....it won't be from me. I wanted to ask in addition, that: 1) everyone please update their definitions in their antiviral programs regularly 2) everyone scan vigilantly and often please 3) if you have no antiviral software, get some 4) if you have no money to get software you can go to Symentecs (Nortons site) and have a free scan done from their site. In addition, you can download from cnet and zdnet antiviral software that is free (its not as good as Nortons, etc, but it would help as a back up for using Nortons free scans). Most of all I wanted to thank everyone who has taken the time to write me to let me know when they have recieved infected email that seems to have been sent from me. I wanted to thank everyone for understanding. I wanted to thank everyone for being so calm, cool, and polite considering such stressful circumstances. You are the best!!! Wolfy Please visit: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/ for information on ferret deafness: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/deaf.html [Posted in FML issue 3777]