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hi all At 23:21 2001/02/01 -0500, Camilla Flintermann wrote: >Hi-- today I have received ---and NOT opened---some 4 or 5 emails >fom "Don & Karen" (unknown to me) with attachments ending in "exe1" >"exe2" and subject heading of "A Great Shockwave Movie". I have >also had several posts in a strange foreign script, also deleted >unopened, probably spam. Have others rec'd these I wonder? >I never open an attachment like this.... yes, i received some "Don & Karen" spam mail amid a constant flurry of others spam scams i never open attachments, period, unless it's from someone i know well and it's something i am expecting as far as i am concerned any e-mail software which "automatically" opens files "attached" to e-mail messages (viz microsoft's Outlook Express) should allow the user to reverse this option easily and permanently (why isn't it the 'default' setting?) otherwise, users of such software are sitting ducks for the virus-writers who take great glee in 'messin with microsoft' in my humble opinion microsoft's first obligation is to protecting their customers not doing battle with their detractors e-mail was designed 30 years ago for text transmission only and that's where its miracle as a medium still lies microsoft's misguided attempts to "WWWebbify" e-mail strike me as irresponsible at best it it works, don't fix it if it don't work, fix it janette nerdette janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/