Re: where to open emails

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:16:22 -0400

Why would a customer (potential customer) send you an attachment w/o you knowing about it in
advance ?

Dave

"me curious" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c9401c4a681$54ab21f0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
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| Sometimes I expect to get emails from people I dont know
| because I have a retail store. Ive avoided opening some
| because they looked suspicious. However, what if they
| would have been a potential customer?? A friend suggested
| to me that I go to a public library & open the ones Im
| not sure of there. Can I expect that since it is
| government facility, that viruses wont spread to other
| pc's there?? After all, they must be in tip top shape
| with antivirus stuff. My address book is on my emails
| accounts server. So I was told that worms cant infest my
| address book unless I use Outlook or something like that.
| Can someone who knows let me know. I dont want to infect
| any ones pc by my ignorance. thanks