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Thank you to all who are educating the list about viruses. I am overly
paranoid about this because I share files with our school computers. If you,
too, are concerned invest in McAfee (sp?) or Norton. We like Norton better
at home---my school system uses McAfee. I checked with our head "tech guy"
because he knows this is a concern of mine since I am now receiving stuff
from all over the country. You are safe to open the document attachments we
send to each other (if you have one of these virus check systems). Your
system will not get the virus from the document--even if the file may
contain the "bug". Your virus scan will isolate the infected file. Now
before I send any file to school, I run a virus scan on my computer, just to
be sure. Viruses most frequently come in EXE files as attachments.

We NEVER open a file unless we have requested one to be sent. When I receive
an unsolicited one from a list member, I let them know my policy so as not
to offend them and ask them what they sent. I know I sent many files out to
be people....and I know they were safe.

We did get Pretty Park on our previous system. Our Virus scan caught it and
isolated it. We followed the step-by-step procedure and were able to remove
the virus entirely--no harm was done. It is now coming around again in
various messages. One even came as a warning, believe it or not.

My son gets mad at me....but I tell him to ask his friends what they sent
because his mom is now the "e-mail police" at our house. His friends get all
sorts of "cool" stuff that they just have to forward on to him...and last
fall, Pretty Park looked to him like it was just another cool thing from his
friends. Don't know?- I delete.

Thanks again for bringing this topic up about viruses. All of our school
computers check all disks that are inserted into the A drive for viruses. I
am sure your school computers do the same.

I am also glad that you folks no longer send attachments to the list as they
come out as an never ending list of gobbly-goop for us digest members.
Hey...you know what else...there aren't as many "Me Too's" either...everyone
is making their wishes more understandable to the list...We are all so
great! Let's just pat ourselves on the back just one more time! I am the
"Rah-Rah- Teacher"...Ok, and now a liar...I did listen to the list today
(smile)

Judy Decker

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