MS Windows mail programs are always attacked by these things, I guess that's the easiest way.
Personally I don't use Outlook to view my messages, I get them on a CE device and almost never open any attachments....not even from dear 'ol mom.
None of my desktops or notebooks are configured to recieve email.
I'll call the sender first and find out if they meant to send it.
If I absolutely must have the attachment then I'll copy the file over and scan it first.

It is soooooo important to keep up with all the MS patches for your OS and keep our virus definitioans up to date, as well as a good reliable firewall.

I'm glad the good folks here are on top of it.

What really bugs me are the HTML code written into some website pages that attempt to disable the program download warning built into IE.
Who would have thought that a major financial business website would try to disable the warning only to automatically download and execute some mystery program??

Efficient drivers do it better.
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