> You can't blame Microsoft for this kind of thing, but I sure blame the > AV people and ISPs for not blocking it! You can and should blame Microsoft. For instance, by default the file extensions are hidden from the user. Why is that? They didn't be so in earlier versions of windows: it was a policy decision. To dumb down user requirements - and to make users ever more reliant on what they are spoon fed. "Click and Hope" is the corporate buy-word. As to semantics: it wasn't me that said "only jpegs are safe". All files are safe - seriously. have no worries at all about opening any com, exe, vbs or whatever file on my windows system. I just make sure I open them in either Notepad (to view as text) or Frhed (to view as hex)! The point about safe computing - save attachments to disk then open them from within the program you think is appropriate (PS for jpeg/gif, notepad for txt etc) is that you get round all the security loopholes. Bob
