[toddlintown]

People who open .doc attachments on e-mails, especially from people they don't know, are idiots.

[randog]

People who open .doc attachments on e-mails, especially from people they don't know, are idiots.

Word.

;^)

[holymoly]

People who open .doc attachments on e-mails, especially from people they don't know, are idiots.

People who open any attachment received via an unsolicited email (i.e. they didn't specifically ask someone to send them the file), is an idiot.

With that being said, here are two excellent, free Anti-Virus programs, for those who may need one. Take your pick:

Avast!
AVG

[Condor51]

****People who open .doc attachments on e-mails, especially from people they don't know, are idiots.****

Huh, wait a sec. Then how are you supposed to meet new and interesting people if you don't open your mail?? Since I've been on the net, 1995 or so, I now have approximately 126,657 new friends thanks to email from complete strangers.

Not to mention that now my hair is no longer falling out, no longer suffer from erectile dysfunction, I can do it any time thanks to Viagra - AND any day I'll be a multi-millionaire thanks to this nice guy in Nigeria.

;-)

[AppyPappy]

We had a new Computer Security guy that also sent out the Diversity newsletter back in the 90's. The template for the newsletter was infected. Everything he posted the newsletter, people got infected.

And you couldn't tell him he was infected.

[Gomez]

Its not even a .doc file, It's an executable.

This was stopped by my ISP's filter:

Received: from source blah blah blah;
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:55:26 CST
Received: from blah blah blah with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu,
18 Jan 2007 20:00:13 -0800
Message-ID:
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:00:13 -0800
From: blah blah blah
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx
Subject: 230 dead as storm batters Europe.
Content-Type: multipart/related;
boundary="------------070309030702060905050609"
X-pstn-levels: (S: 0.00000/96.03645 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 )
X-pstnvirus: AUTH-W32/Downloader.AYDY
X-pstn-settings: 5 (2.0000:2.0000) s gt3 gt2 gt1 r p m c
X-pstn-addresses: from [1682/72]
X-pstn-disposition: quarantine

Attachments:
application/x-msdownload; name="Full Video.exe"

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

People who open .doc attachments on e-mails, especially from people they don't know, are idiots.

True dat.

Everyone should be using Mailwasher or xTerminator 4.21 to get a look at their emails before they even get downloaded to their PCs.

[Don W]

People who open .doc ANY attachments on e-mails, especially from people they don't know, are idiots.

There, fixed it.

I'm preaching to the converted, but I'm still going to stress NEVER NEVER NEVER open ANY attachment from ANYONE unless you have knowledge it's on its way. Even then, a codeword of some sort in the subject line is recommended.

(JMHO, not aN IT guy, just been burned one too many times. ALL email I get is first checked out online at my ISP's webmail and dealt with from there. Only after it's been screened do I allow it onto this 'puter.