John:
The safest of all postures is NEVER to open an attachment to an e-mail
message, even from someone known to you. A number of viruses now lurk in
the wild, and are innocently passed on by your unknowing correspondent.
You are, of course, correct in noting that email itself is harmless. If a
virus were in an email, it would appear on the screen as unintelligible
and unexecutable code.
Ed
On Wed, 3 May 2000 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 03/05/2000 12:36:28, you write:
>
> << The canonical list of such hoaxes is at
> http://www.ciac.org/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html >>
>
> Suffice it to say that opening an e-mail is a innocuous act. It is opening a
> .exe or a .zip file (and perhaps other types too) which is dangerous.
>
> I'm no expert but I never open unsolicited executable files.
>
> John Moulden
>
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