Forum Archive Index - January 2004

[robin benson <rob@hammerheadmedia.co.uk>]

Hi Malcolm

On 30 Jan 2004, at 09:49, Malcolm Cameron wrote:

> The email I recieved from you [Cristine] had an attachment called 
> cheers
> something the whole email was imediately deleted.

Was this an email from Cristine directly or via the list?

> This is what my I.T. specialists advise and never send attacments 
> unless
> you send an ordinary email first telling the recipient an attachment
> coming with next email.

This is not advice that I have heard before. People will open 
emails/attachments anyway. Also, people sort their incoming mail in 
different ways, so who knows which email will be read first. This does 
not sound like good advice to me. Better to use software from a vendor 
who is serious about protecting their customers and/or use an 
up-to-date protection package.

> a lot of viruses do just this) computer is sendiing out emails under 
> your name

Absolutely correct. We have seen this many times.

Regards

Robin

discl. no investments in virus-scanning software companies :O)


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