ANST - Re: Virus Warnings

[Sean Bartholome]

I used to work for Mcafee.  A virus can be contained in an attachment.  
You will not open your system to infection as long as you do not open or 
run the attachment.  If you receive email with attachments from people 
you don't know, or places you don't know.  DON'T OPEN IT.  JUST DELETE 
THE EMAIL.    The email text itself can't not carry virus code.  The 
only file to be worried about are executable files (.exe,.com,.bat, 
etc...) or Word documents (.dot,.doc,.xls, etc...) which contain 
macro-viruses.  There are virus protection programs (Mcafee,Norton,etc) 
that will detect and protect you if you 'accidentily' open the 
attachment, by why even risk it.

Yours in Service,

Sabishii Okami

 


>>  This program informed everyone that you CANNOT get a virus in your 
>computer just by opening e-mail.
>>
>>
>
>I heard the same thing from several people. But they also said that if 
>you get an attachment with it, the virus can be in the attachment. And 
>when open it up, that's when you get the virus. But since I'm new to 
>email, I don't know if this is true or they were kidding.
>
>Shawn
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