Assuming you have an antivirus program on your computer, most can be set to
check files for viruses before you open them.
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In a message dated 12/3/00 12:07:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Perhaps James Mills accidentally sent those two 580K documents to the
> list in general. I shall presume that. If so, perhaps we need to make
> sure our replies go to the person intended and not to the list in
> general. Because I've received a rash of viri-stuffed e-mails NOT
> from discussion lists, I don't want to begin getting attached files
> (that may or may not contain viri) from discussion lists. I'm not
> sure these files were anything but innocuous. I did not open them.
> That is my practice. However, I could not do anything else while
> these huge files were in the process of downloading.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ciao, cg.
>
>
>
>
> Christine Gilmore, MFA, MA, PhD
> Renaissance Literature
> Department of English
> University of Toledo
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