> The bottom line is you have to both run an AV program, and pay > attention to what you execute from your emailer. Just the other day I > got one that appeared to have a TXT file in it, but was actually an > EXE! Do not run anything you are not expecting. JPGs are the only safe > file type to execute. Piffle! <Grin> No files are safe to *Execute*: ALL files are safe to open within appropriate programs. The problem is not the file type but user ignorance acting in synergy with Microsoft's absurdly naive security defaults. The file you thought was a txt file but was really an exe could just as easily have been one you thought was a jpg but was really an exe. There was a comprehensive explanation in a recent Woody's Watch - mandatory reading for anyone "blessed" with MS products. Main advice is to save every attachment (or web-page-linked-file) to diak then open it *unless* you are sure of yourself. Bob
