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@@ -1,5 +1,42 @@ -Welcome to your new wiki. -All wikis are supposed to have a <a href="../sandbox/">SandBox</a>, -so this one does too. ----- -This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info). +[[!meta title="Welcome at dr. Jones' site"]] +[[!meta date="Thu, Dec 23 13:41:12 UTC 2004"]] + +#Virus are in attachments + +Read your emails with pleasure. + +Read greetings from here and from there - also from ones who write "I +love you", and enjoy Nigerians attempting in long phrases to persuade +you to exchange your pin-code with a fictious diamant mine. + +And have a curious look at those emails seemingly delivered to you by +error: Your collegue from work quoting a piece in hebrew and attaching a +Word document. Your swedish friend warning in english about a virus you +immediately must remove using her attached Excel spreadsheet. Bill Gates +himself personally inviting you to a contest about a Nokia phone - you +only need to "click here". Or yourself(?!?) sending you some gibberish +and attaching a compressed file... + +#Virus are in attachments! + +So read calmly your emails. Just avoid opening ATTACHMENTS that you do +not know about. Are you in doubt, then ask the sender for an explanation +or clarification. + +You should NOT be afraid to read emails, and you should NOT follow +hastily instructions you do not understand. + +Are you in doubt then consult your local geek. + +(and are you afraid you will be laughed at, then consult me - I won't +laugh!). + +One freaky detail: Some email applications (especially those from +Microsoft) are so "nice" as to open attachments automatically - without +your prior request. Consult your local geek if you worry that you are +"gifted" with such applications. + +But above all: Don't get frightened! Fear and suspicion are unpleasant +creatures, and irrelevant in relation to email virus. + + - Jonas |