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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- There's no transferable virus on the ARLIS Website. Please don't be alarmed. However, this is a time of year when your acting web administrator is getting a lot of documents to mount or deal with. Duke Library systems informed me this a.m. that a new virus is out there which Virus Scan cannot detect. The safest way to avoid this or any virus, of course, is not to open up the program or attachment from which it is sent. This causes some problems for your administrator since so many documents that come to me are not clearly labeled (or at least clear to me). For the final mailings that you send me this week before the ARLIS conference, would you either write "AWS" [ARLIS Web Site] or some other notification in the subject line so that I am clear that this is from a person who is sending me ARLIS business. Thanks kindly, Lee R. Sorensen ARLIS/NA Acting Web Administrator and South Regional Representative Box 90727 Lilly Library, Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0727 Phone: 919/660-5994 Fax: 919/660-5999 www.lib.duke.edu/lilly/artlibry.htm message text: Be advised, there is a new Word Macro virus that is not detected by the currently installed version of Virus Scan. The virus is a W97M/Class virus and affects the file normal.dot (default template.) We are investigating this and ensuring that the server is safe. We are also investigating the propogation of updated software. In the interim, if you receive a Word document, either as an email attachment or on a floppy disk, do not open the file as your first option. Be a little suspicious. If you don't know that it is clean and don't know what to do, ask for help before doing anything. If you do open such a file, Word97 will alert you that an automacro is trying to execute and ask if you really want this to happen. If you didn't write the automacro or don't know who did, answer 'NO' and alert LIS. We will continue to investigate this.