Well we're all a little punch drunk from the last round, but Lee, I have to say your language is very reiniscent of many many years of panicked emails that shouted about other emails that woudl destroy your hard disk and reroute all your checks and neuter your dog...and so on. Could you perhaps get some details about this? The more facts, the easier to handle it.

And we would be glad to have you join the 'Cat! Easy, painless, and free. And you're welcome.

A screensaver could easily do exactly what you describe,if it were so written, since they are executable files , just as the Visual Basic attachment in the Love Letter was. OTOH, Microsoft and AOL -- the companies --are not generally the best sources for virus data. But it is stioll highly possible that this could happen.

The new lesson, just like the old one, is: Don't Open Attachments from Unknown Sources.

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