this worries me.Forwarded attachment...

[Amanda Lee]

no, of course not but if I know what the file extension is in the first
place, as well as whether or not it can be rendered executable, then it's
probably harmless.   If I don't recognize it then yes, I likely won't go
near it.

Amanda

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment...


> Would you really want to do that, not knowing what the consequences would
> be? I sure wouldn't.
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Amanda Lee wrote:
>
> > Unless another program can pick-up this file extension and then execute
it,
> > don't see what the worry is all about!
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment...
> >
> >
> > > I thought they maybe a diskised virus. Also, how are people not
running
> > the other OS supposed to view this?
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:15:09AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> > > > Hi:
> > > >
> > > > What exactly is worrying about this attachment?  I've seen them on
> > messages
> > > > from windows users before but don't know what they do.  but I sure
> > couldn't
> > > > make any sense of it.  I'm not real sure why you sent it here.
> > > >
> > > > Geoff.
> > > >
> > > >
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