[HangFire]

FreeRepublic just saved my a$$! No sooner than reading this thread, I received an email from an old trusted friend, you guessed it! It read;

How are you ? When I saw this screen saver, I immediately thought about you I am in a harry, I promise you will love it!

If not for this thread I know I would have opened the attachment, once again thanks FR!

[Jefferson Adams]

If not for this thread I know I would have opened the attachment, once again thanks FR!

Never, ever, ever open ANY attachment other than one with a .jpg or .gif extension. If someone you know sends you a spiffy new game or something, email them and ask them if they really sent it and if they ran it on their computer. If so, then - maybe - fire it up. Otherwise - never never never.

[SFmom]

The very same thing just happened to me! I wrote my friend back warning her because this virus obviously attaches to people's email and sends itself!

[topher]

Which is why I felt it important enough to put in "Breaking News" for FreeRepublic.

Somebody complained about this being posted before I posted it, but it was not posted in breaking news (so it would be an eye catcher...)