Re: where to open emails

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:45:50 -0500

Use a mail setting to open all the email as "plain text" and
run a full-time anti-virus scan on the email. Have your
computer up to date.

"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