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Originally posted by Hootie:
Quick Question!
If something is a virus, I was under the impression that it is OKAY to open the email, just not to download anything. Am I right or wrong! Let me know, and thanks for the imformation! My mom will download ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that is sent to her, so I'll let her know NOT to!
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Yeah, you have to actually download and open the file to get the virus - but the advise is usually to delete the email entirely w/out opening, b/c the file could possibly be self-extracting, and also accidents can happen (when i worked at a computer company one summer in high school, a guy opened an email he knew had a virus attached "just to look", and then accidently opened the file instead of deleting the email b/c he clicked in the wrong spot . . . this is a guy w/ a degree in MIS, making 6 figs a year . . . eh)
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