Re: Please Read
You receive an email with an attachment. Frequently this email is from someone you know and trust.
You double click it thinking it is a valid file"
I've been running without AV for quite a long time now. I install one and check for viruses every so often; only one has ever gotten to me, and -that- was an immediately obvious one. The usual virus trick doesn't work on me.
Tips for files:
1. if you aren't expecting a file, ASK. Viruses are quite sneaky and can spoof file names and even email names.
2. If you are running Windows, make sure to uncheck "hide file extensions" this on-by-default features causes more headcahes than it solves. Many viruses hide their package in things like Blah.jpg.exe. With hide file extensions on, you only see the first extension, so you think its an image file.
Phoenix-D
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Phoenix-D
I am not senile. I just talk to myself because the rest of you don't provide adequate conversation.
- Digger
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