[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please 'splain something to me... > > Are people normally in the habit of opening attachments from e-mail addresses > that they do not recognize?
Yes. People are absolute idiots when it comes to these things. We have told our users not to do this 'till we're blue in the face, and still they gotta double-click *every* damn thing that comes along... We had one person here who called us to tell us she was having problems looking at an attachment. It was some damn virus thing, and every time she double clicked on it the AV software on her computer was blocking it. "There's something wrong with my computer! It won't let me see this attachment, the stupid antivirus won't let it..." <sigh> And they wonder why sysadmins drink heavily... (This was the same person who tries to open JPEGs with Word, because "You open everything with Word, right?" Now, where's that bottle of scotch???) They're right up with those folks who breathlessly tell us they stopped a dire threat to our network because a friend of a friend got a e-mail from her boy friend's golfing buddy's sister-in-law who forwarded a message from a friend's son's hacker friend (or sometimes it's Bill Gates or Steve Case) about this evil new virus "sulfnbk.exe" that NO antivirus can find or deal with, and why didn't *we* tell them about it? Arent' we on the ball?? (sulfnbk.exe is a perfectly normal, if somewhat obscure Windows DOS utility program...there are a host of such hoaxes about. <http://www.vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=257&page=3> One day some joker's gonna distribute one of these telling people to delete a vital part of windows, and that's gonna wreak total havok, because then people will be *totally* convinced that the thing is real, frantically call *everyone* they know and the next day sysadmins will walk into work with every damn pc in the office non-functional..."And in financial news today, stock in Seagrams and Jim Beam soared on an unexplained huge volume of sales...") -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
