Hi, Regarding not opening attachments, I usually....usually...don't open them. This is hard because I have at least 4 friends who send me cute or sentimental or patriotic attachments a lot. I have not told them that this is dangerous because they obviously are really into these things and are trying to be nice. I get a couple of these things every day because I don't want to hurt their feelings. Once in awhile, I get tempted and open one. So, when I saw one from Carolyn McD. who isn't into forwarding stuff promiscuously, I opened it. Whew! My Norton's jumped in real quick and I was spared the trouble I might have had. I knew then what had happened. Now I'm struggling with the issue of whether to ask my 4 friends not to send these to me and warn them not to open them either. Or to just take the cowards way out as I have been doing. My brother would tell me to "lighten up" but then he doesn't own a computer. Any ideas, my email is below. Barb T keenebj@juno.com