This message is from: Mike May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 02:38 PM 3/9/00 -0800, you wrote:
This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike on Outlook express how do you delete a message before it is displayed? In other words is there a way to delete a virus message before looking at it? Does just viewing it on your screen trigger the invasion? Or do you have to click on an html in the message?
Up until the new types of virus that are circulating the web right now it wasn't possible to get a virus through email unless you actually clicked on and ran an attached file. That is no longer necessarily always true but still is in most cases.
So to answer your question about deleting the message, you should be able to delete it ok by just selecting the message in the preview mode (don't double click on it) and then hit the delete key. Your probably pretty safe as long as you don't run an attached .exe file that you were not expecting to be sent to you.
The real thing you want to do is have a good virus detection program installed & running on your system. Also make sure that it is up to date with its definition files. Some of the better ones are The Norton Anti virus, McAffee's Antivirus & Dr Solomon's Anti Virus. I have used all 3 of them in the past & think I like Norton's about the best. They have a "Live Update" feature that will download the latest version from the web site for you. It makes it pretty easy to do.
I was sent the HAPPY99 virus again just the other day & a window popped up just after the mail came in and told me it was received. It put it into the "Quarantined" folder and it didn't do any harm at all.
Mike
