On 09/03/07, BARRY HOLLAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it is very foolish to trust anything in an e-mail message > without some independent confirmation that it is genuine. > > Terry Streeter > NB Arun - Brentford > > > How, in all honesty, can you confirm that Terry? > Short of meeting face-to-face & interrogating the "suspect" it's not > possible is it? How has business survived in the modern world where far more > important matters than "eclipse animation" have been discussed & passed back > & forth--a pox on you Bill Gates & Tim Berners-Lee! > Barry > Nb wherewillthisallend?[upourownbacksidesishouldn'twonder!] > It's nothing to do with discussing "eclipse animation". It is all about email attachments or downloading and running executable (.exe) files which are unverified.
Business survives because money is spent on (email) systems which are set up to strip dangerous files such as exe before the reader gets to open the email! HTH John nine9feet
