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See, even the virus writers have stopped supporting Macintosh.

I agree with Glenn that opening unexpected documents is inherently dangerous
and inadvisable. But it is also a business reality that plenty of users send
out documents unexpectedly, and these documents may be required reading. Try
telling your VP that you didn't read his attached document because you
weren't expecting it, or even that you are waiting a day to see if anyone
else discovered it contained I virus (which then becomes like the classic
Life cereal commercial: I'm not going to open it, you open it. I'm not going
to open it. Hey! Let's get Mikey! He'll open anything!).

You could reduce the number of attachments you receive by calling everyone
who sends you an attachment, to ask them if they intended to send it or if
it is in fact a virus. I have reduced the number of attachments I receive
from co-workers by complaining every time they do, and explaining at length
and in detail what other means could have been used to share the contents or
the document itself by other means. That's the upside. The downside is I am
told that certain co-workers have given me a colorful nickname...

Besides reducing the number of attachments that one gets, there are safe
ways to handle attachments. For one, no one I know is going to be sending me
VB scripts, so the .vbs is suspicious enough, and not my preferred way of
saying I love you. .DOCs and the like can be viewed with WordPad. Most
documents can be QuickViewed, depending on one's versions of Office and
Windows / NT. MS similarly provides Word, Excel, and PowerPoint viewers on
their Office site. Since I read more docs than I write, they are my
preferred associations for these extensions, so I can pretty safely open
them in the viewers.

I wonder when someone is going to send out a virus as an update for one's
anti-virus?

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com