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RE: new nasty email virus trick to bypass scanners

  • From: R. Benjamin Kessler
  • Date: Thu Dec 04 16:53:16 2003 
> >
> > > Common sense, in these times shows you to not open emails from
> strangers
> > > especially with *.zip files unless they are coming from a known party
> based on
> > > some kind of dialog prior to it being sent and received.
> >
> > Common sense always loses when fighting against the promise of dancing
> hampsters.
> 
> Empirically speaking, common sense does not appear to
> be common at all.  ;-)
> 
> 
Quite so; as I always like to say:

"Common sense is not a common virtue"[1]

[1] Apologies to Adm. Nimitz and the Marines on Iwo Jima