I suppose there are a lot of people who, seeing an email from address "microsoft@support.com," and reading the cryptic subject "important information!" and the equally cryptic message "all information is in the attached file" would be so unwise as to click on said attached file, which was labelled "screensaver" and called something.pif.* However, I am not one of those people.
*I forget what, because I deleted it immediately.
Posted by Andrea Harris at May 23, 2003 10:41 PMI've received four copies of this so far.
Believe me, I've dealt with Microsoft Support often enough to know they're never gonna send me a letter.
Posted by: CGHill at May 23, 2003 at 11:18 PMOh, I just delete any attachment that isn't a jpeg, gif, or txt file. Automatically.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at May 23, 2003 at 11:30 PMI've gotten to the point I just delete every email with an attachment regardless without opening it. Still, with three kids and a husband on my tiny home network I average at least one new virus a week. (Why can't they learn to leave the virus scan ON?>
And I agree about Microsoft Support never sending a letter. I do get emails from their Marketing Department trying to sell me stuff--since I used to build computers as a business--but Support? Not a chance.
Posted by: kellyds at May 24, 2003 at 02:25 AMUnsolicited attachments ending in .EXE, .SCR, or .PIF are absolutely flush bait with me. I figure with my firewall software and anti-virus both on the job, I can take a chance on most others if they're from someone I know.
Posted by: McGehee at May 24, 2003 at 10:38 AM