>According to last week's New Scientist there are now viruses that
>infect your PC as soon as a text message is opened.
It is an unfortunate fact that Outlook Express has a couple of holes that
can cause attachments
to activate as soon as the email is opened. Opening a message that does not
have attachments
CANNOT cause viruses to be introduced onto your system.
MS Outlook has a similar problem but Microsoft does as a fix for this. There
is NO fix for Outlook Express.
So...
If you only open mail messages without attachments you don't have a problem.
If you open mail messages with attachments and are also using Outlook
Express you
should ensure that you have a virus scanner installed AND update the scanner
weekly.
Never, never, never open an attachment that is a .EXE or .VBS even if it is
from
someone you trust - they may not know that they sent it to you.
If I got $100 for every time I got called out to fix problems caused by
people disobeying
these basic rules I'd .... oh, I do.
And with that, may I wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Great New
Year
Happy Building
Tony
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