Rudolf Polzer graced us by uttering:
> So there *is* something about AOL which is not bad. Thanks for your
> information!

I'm sure it wasn't intentional, and I hope this doesn't interfere with
your opinion of this monolithic cruftball.  ;)

> You also should never open attachments from known senders. Viruses
> often come from known senders who have you in their address book,

Good advice, but it's really only really important if you use MS
Outhouse Distress.  Most of the popular virii exploit the VBScript
features of MSOE's internal mail viewer to ransack your address book and
spam-infect your friends/acquaintances.  I don't believe Netscape has
such a security hole.

> so I only open attachments that are safe (image formats are safe) or
> have been announced or requested. No matter who it's from.

Again, good advice.  Image formats _are_ safe, despite the recent
warnings that they've successfully embedded virii in JPG files.  Yes,
the virus code is inside the file, BUT it has no way of running or
replicating itself.  Anything marked of content-type text/plain is
probably ok, so long as you don't blindly execute it.  The biggest
dangers are in .EXE, .VBS, or .SCR files, but these are only dangers to
Windows systems.

> Try to find out the mail provider he's sent it with and report him to
> his ISP.

Amen.  Please.  =)

Tim Hammerquist
-- 
Is that a 286 or are you just running Windows?