The Bottom Line....

["B. Bruce Anderson" <b.bruce.anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would one of the more computer literate among you please take pity on me -
and others I am sure - and tell me what in the heck to do with this Kak Worm
virus?  There have been a lot of messages about it.  The Final
Answer -please?

I caught it from someone - I believe I know who but I haven't told him yet -
last December.  I had a friend come over and he ran a DOS program of some
kind that took 6 hours 48 minutes to finish. At about the 6 hour mark it
found 3 infected files and deleted them.  One of them was the Signature
file, that allows you to click your name address, etc. at the end of your
e-mail.  I know that because whenever thereafter I clicked on New Mail, to
compose a message for someone I got a message that this file was no longer
there.

About 2 weeks later that message disappeared and - sure enough - Kak Worm
was back.

What to do?  I checked my Outlook Express version and I do have an older
version - but someone else said that is not the way to fix it.  What should
I do - first go online and buy Norton's Antivirus?  Will that do it?  Will
it expunge the virus and then prevent it & others from coming back to me..
Do you have to ''run it'' periodically or does it do it automatically?  What
about updates - do they occur automatically?

I have heard that Norton's will seriously slow down your computer.  I have
only a 300 MHz Pentium II . True, something we will just have to live with?

There are a lot of questions here, but this virus seems so easy to transmit
that I think a lot of people have it.  You DO NOT have to open an .exe file
to get it. I sent an e-mail to a friend at a large Army Arsenal here in NJ -
it came back with a note that it was being blocked because of Kak Worm,.

Thanks,
BBA