Two possibly useful tips:

VBS and javascript viruses can be easily thwarted by preventing your
mail reader from running visual basic and java scripts.  It is very
seldom that one truly needs them anyway - standard e-mail doesn't
contain either visual basic or java script, and a great many people
don't have mail programmes that can read them.

Autonomously active e-mail viruses can also be thwarted by choosing to
use a mail programme that does not have the code-processing abilities
that the virus needs.  A great many of them rely on the 'extra
functionality' that's built into e.g. Outlook.  (It has long surprised
me that, despite so many press clippings linking viruses with Outlook,
so many people still use it.  Maybe this is testimony to the product's
superiority?)

There's of course no need to mention the dangers of opening attachments
that you didn't specifically expect...

Andrew Renaut wrote:
>
> The was forwarded to me by a friend who works at a large stock broker here
> in Melbourne - so it seems genuine enough.
>
> Cheers Andrew Renaut MA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Help desk
> Sent:   Tuesday, 13 February 2001 14:15
> To:     JBWERE (all users)
> Subject:        VIRUS WARNING - DO NOT OPEN EMAIL "HE YOU HAVE" with
> attachment Anna Kournikova
>
> Hi All,
>
> Please note, that there is a new virus going around called the "ANNA
> KOURNOKOVA" virus. It is being transmitted in the form of an attachment. If
> you receive an e-mail with an attachment called:
>
>  AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs
>
> Please delete this email immediately, do not open the attachment.
>
> We are now scanning for this virus on our mail servers, so we should no
> longer get any new messages with this virus in it.
>
> Regards,
> Helpdesk
>
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