It's a terrible feeling to be a "carrier" of bad news. Here is information on a virus that may have been sent to Lactnet as a result of my computer being infected. 'BADTRANS' WORM PICKS UP SPEED An Internet worm that leaves a backdoor for hackers and allows them to record keystrokes spread rapidly Monday, officials of several antivirus companies said. The worm, called "Badtrans.b," is a variant of an earlier identified worm and sends itself out through versions of Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail programs.What troubles security experts most is that if users are viewing e-mail in the preview pane of Outlook, the worm can be spawned without even clicking on an attachment. The social engineering of Badtrans is equally nefarious: It arrives in the recipient's in-box with a "Re:" subject line that appears to be a response to an e-mail actually sent by the user. Please see if you have been infected too. Karen Koss .... *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html