Viruses

Just a little reminder... NEVER open attachments to email unless you're SURE you know who sent them. Even then, you may receive something from a friend, but it might really have been sent by a virus which infected their computer. Most of the viruses target Microsoft Outlook Express. Microsoft added all kinds of neat features to their products over the years to make them easy to use, but never thought about the security implications of most of them.

Amaranth provides virus scanning service on all email messages which traverse our servers. While effective, we still recommend all clients use a virus scanner on their own computers, and keep that up-to-date.

We at Amaranth Networks recommend Qualcomm's Eudora email program, which seems to be MUCH safer. It's available at http://www.eudora.com/. If you decide to switch, we can help you through the transition. We also highly recommend the Norton Antivirus program. See http://www.symantec.com/.

Some of the latest viruses may come through the computers of friends and associates. These are referred to as worms. They often send themselves out to everyone in the contact list in a user's email program. If you receive one of these viruses, it will appear to be email from someone you know. The lesson here is to be wary of all attachments, whether they come from folks you know or not. Only open attachments when you're expecting something from someone, and never open executable programs that are attached to email.

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