>receiving e-mails with ZIP attachments and often little or no text in >the e-mail body. Some of these e-mails are from folks in my address book >- others are not. I have NOT opened these Zip attachments as I have >confirmed with some of the senders that they have NOT sent me this >garbage.......is this the latest in virus land? I updated by Norton >virus definitions and scanned everything - "No viruses found". > > > >Mary Lou
If those folks in your address book are running Windows with Outlook Express and have your address in THEIR address books, then it's quite possible that they have/had a Windows virus which is forwarding itself to everyone in their address book. But that's their problem. You don't have a problem other than inconvience. However, I would recommend that you trash your Norton software. There are no OSX viruses and so few OS9 viruses that I've never received one in the last 9 years of being on-line. And I receive several thousand messages each week. Bottom line - Norton antivirus does nothing useful on a Mac but it does have the potential to screw things up when you are installing new software. I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. On the subject of Pop-Ups, I use Pop-Up zapper lite with I.E. 5.1.7 (G3 running OS9). On my G4/Panther I use "Safari". Martin Pickering (UK) Using: G4/1.4Gb, OS10.3.3, 960Mb SDRAM, 80Gb HD, 60Gb HD and Beige G3/233, OS9.2, 224Mb SDRAM, 80Gb HD, Ricoh MP7040S CD-R/RW Scanmaker X6, PrimeFilm 1800u (35mm), Epson Stylus Color 760. iBook G3/500, OS10.3.3, 256Mb DRAM, 10Gb HD, 2xUSB. iPod 10Gb. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
