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Re: Virus Warning


From: Ashley M. Kirchner
Subject: Re: Virus Warning
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:15:21 -0700

"Hanser, Kevin" wrote:

> Well, as long as you DON'T CLICK THE ATTACHMENT, you won't be affected.  And
> as we all know, it's a big no-no to click an attachment that you don't know
> what it does! :)
>
> I feel sorry for anybody who mindlessly clicks on files with extension .vbs
> that arrive in their inbox :)

    Not quite mindlessly.

  a) the attachment will run is you have the preview panel open
  b) some people have the 'don't show file extensions for known files'
     turned on, which means they'll only see 'AnnaKournikova.jpg' and
     think it's an image
  c) not everyone is as bright as you

  AMK4 (who does NOT use Outlook)

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