On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:09:56 -0500, Elmo <elmogeek@iglou.invalid>
wrote:

> 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.


That's good to do, and reduces the risk still further. But again, it
doesn't eliminate it.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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