Or if you DO use Outlook, make sure you have Visual BASIC scripting turned off. A lot of recent viruses rely
on Outlook automatically running Visual BASIC script attachment. If you have that "feature" turned off you
at least have half a chance.
Neil Bradley wrote:
> > Did you mean to send this to me? Looks more like you're having some kind of e-mail problem, or
> > potentially a virus. The message had no subject, no body, but an attachment of a .PIF for the document
> > "I_am_sorry.DOC"
>
> Sorry folks -
>
> A listmember must've gotten bit by a Word macro virus. There's no way
> around it except to not run a Microsoft product as a mail client. That's
> the risk of listmembers who use things like Outlook.
>
> -->Neil
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