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From: "Jane Lyons" <>
Subject: Virus or not...........Re: [IRL-CEMETERIES] YOUGHAL CEMETERY
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:33:36 -0000
References: <1f0.2331181.2b83f6bf@aol.com>


I'm afraid this does not apply to you Margaret as you use AOL - or, rather,
I don't know if it does.

I have two anti virus checkers - that's irrelevant - bitten once, twice shy
as they say, so I am extra careful.

The following applies definitely to Microsoft users - Apple users are rarely
affected, those who use Web Tv are not affected either as far as I know -
MIcrosoft is the main culprit or victim whichever way you want to look at
it.

I receive a lot of email every day - all spam I delete, or anything that
looks like spam - I don't open any email with an attachment - tht is one
that comes in to my mail box with a paper clip beside it. I delete anything
that seemingly comes from any rootsweb list with a paper clip. Rootsweb
does not accept attachments - therefore, no matter how good the email would
look to me if I was a personal family histoy researcher I would bite my
tounge and delete.

I never send attachments without notifying the person at the other end that
I cam about to do so and I *never* open an email with an attachment when it
looks like it may be ok and to me, no matter which of my close friends has
sent it, no matter what their operating sysdtem is, no matter what I know
about their anti -virus programmes without first checking it.

To check and email using Microsoft as your browser. (Mine)

First I highlight the mail - then I go to 'File' on my bar at the top of my
computer, I scroll down the box that opens and highlight 'Properties' this
then opens a box telling me something about the mail............where it
came from and how it got here - the 'flight path' that it took, so to
speak..........in that box there is something else that I click - this is in
the bottom half of the box......it says 'message properties'. I click on
that............and then a box opens up with all the information on the
email - where it came from the path it took and in there I can read the
message *without actually opening the email*

If I see any gobbeldy gook - as in what I recognise as the HTML for a web
page - then I delete..........if I see the word 'midi' describing what
follows, if I don;t se some words directed personally to me.............then
I close everything up and delete the mail.

Better safe than sorry :-) I've been sorry, having trusted someone in the
past!

I believe the list owner does not like t have viruses discussed on this list
and I apologise for replying - in some ways - I also believe that there are
too many people out there who do not know how to check emails and who open
the suspect ones and whose computers do become infected.

Should anyone be confused as to anything I have said - then please email me
at and don't hit your 'reply' icon. This list is set so that
all replies go to the list.

Jane

----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [IRL-CEMETERIES] YOUGHAL CEMETERY


> Please can someone explain to me how to tell if a email has a virus before
> opening ? Is there a procedure to do especially when you do not know the
> person sending
> the mail of Ire's. Cemeteries. thanks
> margaret reply to

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