Mary Lou deftly typed-- >For the last several weeks and almost on a daily basis, I have been >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: These zip files are more than likely viri--BUT-- PC viri and thus not harmful to you. This is why Norton reports "No viruses found"--because they are not Mac viri. You don't say what OS you are using, but if you are using X, there are no viri for that OS. If you are using 9, Norton should catch the (few) OS 9 viri. I don't waste time worrying about viri. In fact I've not used an anti virus program for years. No infection since the late '80s when I caught one that was easily killed. You are receiving email even from people you don't know because you and these senders have a mutual contact who has both of you in his/her address book. PC virus, in order to distribute themselves widely, secretly send copies of themselves to radomly selected names in a users address book. Get Emailer cleanup (at versiontracker) to delete pesky .zip, .exe, etc. files. Cheers. bevon Berndt von Wahlde Academic International Press PO Box 1111 * Gulf Breeze FL 32562-1111 850 934 0953 (fax) / [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail) / www.ai-press.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "it's a perfect day for making out to wake up with a smile without a doubt to burst grin giggle bliss skip jump sing and shout let's get happy! it's a perfect day for doing the unstuck" --the cure ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
