At 08:26 PM 2000/06/19 EDT, me 'n' bonnie wrote: >> am i the only one on this list who has been virus free since 1982? >> i wonder how i managed that? ... hmmm ... > >I can't beat that record! But I have not had a virus in all the (approx 6) >years I've had on-line service. >Bonnie yowsa!!! i'm impressed!! i virtually ran my company "Sterling" single-handedly on computers from 1991 to 1997 and was hyper-vigilant about keeping it 'clean' or else the entire company records could have been affected e.g. i refused to allow my employees to bring 'floppies' in from home no matter what. anything that got installed was installed by me from disks whose pedigree was known to me microsoft have set themselves and their customers up for trouble by trying to add too many "bells and whistles" to e-mail and leaving their software and customers vulnerable in a skeptical and cynical not to say innovative cyber frontier automatically opening attachments to e-mail is simply one of those "dumbest ideas in a decade" that ms is infamous for any software manufacturer following their lead is playing the "lemmings" game imho, of course janet who still believes in that ounce of prevention janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 / PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada visit my website "a new voice" at: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/"