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I second what John says about certain word processor documents, specifically MS Word ones. I personally received a few months ago an attached MS Word document that contained a very "nasty" macro which made the document into a read-only and did the same to any other documents that were opened at the same time. The bad part was it was from someone that I knew and didn't know the document was infected. The lasted version of MS Word has a macro alert message that can protect you. Be careful!! Julian Hansen John I Quist wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Jim wrote: > > > Jack, > > Perhaps you should warn people if they receive an attachment from an > > unknown source--they might want to be cautious about opening it! If I > > don't know the person sending me an attactment--I "Trash" it. > > > > Jim > > > Right on, Barb! The only way email can provide a virus is via an > > > attachment which turns out to be a program which the receiver in > > > turn executes. There apparently are some word processing virus' > > > but again one must execute the attachment to enable the virus. > ------------------------------####### > > Execute - run - is the magic word here. If it's an image or plain text, > there is no danger in opening it and looking at it. Programs, and in some > cases word processor documents like MS Word .doc files are to be treated > with some caution after you have extracted them from the email they came in. > > Take care, > John.