E-mail Attachments

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I've been told to NOT open attachments because the attachments might
have nasty stuff attached to them (which the senders probably don't
know about).

The problem is that when a sender, who is a friend and who wouldn't
knowingly send a bad thingy to me, put much of his TEXT e-mail INTO
non-txt attachments. Like I wrote before, he won't intentionally send
a bad thingy to me. However, he's like a lot of people who actually
forward e-mail. These forwarded e-mail messages may have bad thingies
as attachments. (I know that text files do not carry viruses.) Would a
good (updated twice per week) AV program protect my PC? If not, what
would?

Thank you,

Barry Karas

 

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You can get E-mail messages with attachments that *look* like they are from
a friend, but in fact, are not from a friend. I know this for a fact. It
happened to me about three years ago. The friend didn't even know she had
sent it, a virus on her machine sent E-mail messages w/attachments to
everyone in her Address Book. Totally screwed up my machine with a *bad*
virus. Cost me big $$$ above what I was already paying.

Do not open attachments from "friends" unless you know that they are sending
you one.

A good (updated at least once a day) AV program is mandatory.

Do not use or pay for McAfee, they are the ones who charged me *extra* to
fix my virus problem. I still badmouth them any chance I get. *eg*

If you don't have any AV software, get some *NOW*.

Get Your AVG 7 for free!
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In newshq8d1htnpi2is3q09pqnb4580brdj8k06@4ax.com,
Barry Karas <bkaras@adelphia.net> hunted and pecked:
> I've been told to NOT open attachments because the attachments might
> have nasty stuff attached to them (which the senders probably don't
> know about).
>
> The problem is that when a sender, who is a friend and who wouldn't
> knowingly send a bad thingy to me, put much of his TEXT e-mail INTO
> non-txt attachments. Like I wrote before, he won't intentionally send
> a bad thingy to me. However, he's like a lot of people who actually
> forward e-mail. These forwarded e-mail messages may have bad thingies
> as attachments. (I know that text files do not carry viruses.) Would a
> good (updated twice per week) AV program protect my PC? If not, what
> would?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Barry Karas

 

[johnf]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Before you try to open it email him & ask whether he sent an attachment, if
so, what format is it in & approx. size?

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johnf

> I've been told to NOT open attachments because the attachments might
> have nasty stuff attached to them (which the senders probably don't
> know about).
>
> The problem is that when a sender, who is a friend and who wouldn't
> knowingly send a bad thingy to me, put much of his TEXT e-mail INTO
> non-txt attachments. Like I wrote before, he won't intentionally send
> a bad thingy to me. However, he's like a lot of people who actually
> forward e-mail. These forwarded e-mail messages may have bad thingies
> as attachments. (I know that text files do not carry viruses.) Would a
> good (updated twice per week) AV program protect my PC? If not, what
> would?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Barry Karas