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Don't Open Email Attachments You sit at your desk and begin looking through your emails. You delete all the spam, which is the majority of your unopened messages. Then you see an email from a trusted friend. There is an email and the subject reads �Hey man, you gotta check this out�. With your hand on the mouse you slowly move the arrow over your friend�s name. Then something tells you not to open it. You quickly hit the delete button. Later, when you talk to your friend, he tells you that he did not send you an email message. You are relieved that you didn�t act on your first instinct. With just one click of the mouse, you could have lost everything. You could have destroyed your computer and everything you have work so hard to develop.

Most people are aware of the serious risks of opening email attachments from sources they don�t know, but what about a close friend or family member? They can be equally dangerous. Before opening ANY email attachments, even from a trusted friend, one should always contact this person and confirm that they did send an attachment. Emails can appear to be from someone you know well when, in actuality, they can be from a hacker, trying to get into your system or just trying to infect your computer with a virus. Some viruses can be �fatal� to a computer and you may lose important data that you will never be able to retrieve.

Some tips you should follow to avoid a virus are as follows:

�Do not open any attachments that you are not expecting. If it appears to be from someone you know, confirm with them that they did, in fact, send you an attachment before opening it.

�Save and scan attachments. Save the attachment on your hard drive or on a disk. Then scan it through your antivirus software.

�Disable �automatic download�. Some computers have the option to automatically download attachments before you even see them or get a chance to delete them. Find out if your computer has this feature and, if it does, disable it.

�Add a firewall. Extra security for your computer won�t hurt. You could filter email attachments through a firewall before it creates a huge problem.

�If you have IE6 SP1 or WinXP SP1 and higher, you can read an email without validating your email address with the server. Simply go to Tools | Options | Read. Then select "read all messages in plain text".The bottom line is don�t open an email attachment unless you are expecting it. No matter how tempting it looks and no matter who sent it, it could very well be a dangerous virus that will destroy your computer and all your hard work and critical, irretrievable data. It�s just not worth that kind of curiosity, is it?

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