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Wel, if you're foolish enough to click on an attachment, then you probably ought to cancel your own account so you don't do further damage to yourself and the internet. But you've never struck me as that kind of fool.

Nope. I read that note from the e-mail server, which the attachment never left before it was deleted. Did I miss something good?

The one I got was a virus inside a zipped attachement. The zipping was to get it past virus checkers.

If you had opened it you would have had a chance at making some real money with just a simple international phone call and your bank account numbers.

I have a post about this email. Please read! http://www.mutatedmonkeys.com/weblog/archives/000881.html#000881

Its the MiEmail Virus. Hope you didnt open it. Its a mild worm. No big major damage, but you might want to run Nortons AntiVirus, just in case.

My sarcasm must be too subtle. I linked the fact it was a virus with the words "most curious e-mail." And while I'm at it, I'll state my rep: 3 computer systems owned over the course of 7.5 years, and never have I had a virus, or had to reload my operating system. It's almost like having a Mac (figured I better say it before someone else did).

OK, I should have checked the link (though I did get the sarcasm on the first read). I didn't think you had opened the attachment, or would. Perhaps I've been affected more than others, but I got dozens of those emails before I banned them. (None of which I opened.)

I am almost superstitiously afraid to mention it but I don't think I have every had a virus either, and I have had computers for a very long time. I attribute this to never opening an attachment that looks like it could even vaguely be executable.

A good practice, Elaine. "Just say no." I never open attachments from people I don't know, and I only open them from people I do know if I'm expecting them to send me one. My own sister once sent me an innocent attachment, but I didn't open it, because it came from her corporate address during a time there was a big virus on the loose, and it had the subject line "Check this out!" Nope, no thanks. Yet I know people who come home from a vacation, and when they download their mountain of e-mail, they just point and click and point and click, and before you know it, every JPG on their hard drive has been erased (true story). Unfortunately, every time you open your e-mail client these days, you have to assume you are going to be assaulted, either by volumes of spam, or a virus. And in my experience lately, that assumption is nearly never proven wrong.