Plato wrote:
> Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
>>>> At first I got this message when I tried to open an email attachment. Now
>>> Don't open email attachments unless you are expecting them.
>> That statement implies that it is safe to open attachments that you
>> are expecting. That is *not* true.
>>
>> Even if you are expecting an attachment from your best and most
>> -trusted friend, if your friend is infected with a virus and doesn't
>> know it, the attachment may also be infected, and if you open it, you
>> are at risk of getting infected. Running an anti-virus program reduces
>> the risk, but does *not* eliminate it.
>>
>> The safest rule, and the one that I follow myself, is not to open
>> E-mail attachments at all.
>
> I save them to a folder, then scan them first.

That's a very good practice. The only addition, and I suspect you do
this, I wait a week so my a/v definitions have a chance to catch up to
any malware recently created.

Maybe we shouldn't warn so many people.. we need someone to find and
report the malware so the a/v companies can find it in-the-wild. Just
kidding, but someone's going to fall for it!

Actually I save the whole email and open the questionable attachment
later. It recently paid off when an email, supposedly from one of my
brothers, had a subject about "Trip Plans". We had recently discussed
vacationing together, so it seemed plausible. There was an attached
..zip file. I opened the file and saw that it contained a. executable.
That seemed strange, so I moved the email to my "Purgatory" folder, and
emailed my brother about the .zip file. I never got an answer, and
about five days later I started to open the email again to look at the
header, etc., and Avast! went crazy, warning that a virus had been
detected. Conditions were just right, and I almost fell for that one.

--
Joe =o)