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I have also experienced a virus (concept) which attaches itself to word documents and caused damage to my files. So, I agree that we must be careful so that we do not download some macro's with documents. My virus program (PCCillan) did not detect the virus. Henry Guttentag CG for wife 63/9 =========================================== Julian Hansen wrote: > > 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.