[Moderator's note: I'm posting this primarily because of the "PPS" at the end. In general, posts about computer worms and such are off-topic (and so extremely numerous!) that they aren't accepted for the FML. So... if someone has a response about this for Ed, please mail it directly to him as I likely will not accept it for the FML. My ultra-short answer, since I'm discouraging responses to the FML but already whetted your appetite is this: Yes, with just about ALL virus programs just reading your mail isn't enough to "contaminate" you. You actually have to do something, like open the attached documents in MS Word or Excel (in the case of a macro virus), or, most usually, you have to actually run the program that gets created when you download the attachment. As long as you don't run the program (e.g. by double-clicking it) you have nothing to worry about. In the case of regular free juno mail this isn';t an issue anyhow since the regular juno service doesn't support email with attachments. They have a pay "juno plus" or something which supports attachments. BIG] Regarding the Happy99 virus (or worm - whatever that is?) that we have received as an attachment to the Washington State Ferret Mail Digest of recent days (I haven't seen it nor am I aware of it) What does it look like? You say it's an attachment. OK, what's an attachment and how's it recognized? Also how does one open an attachment? (You say not to open the Happy99 attachment, did you not?) I, as perhaps some few other computer illiterates, would certainly appreciate a little bit of help here from you guys and gals who comprehend this cybertech fundamentalism and who have the nack of "Telling it like it is" for us at the "bottom of the gene pool" where I've been told I'm at. PS. Just yesterday I learned that downloading isn't enough but that one has to "install" what one's downloaded. Now that's just plain beyond me. After downloading a so-called "improved" version of Freei.net, I simply can't find it. It should be somewhere in my computer (downloaded it 6 times!) and I'll be darned if I know where it went. Thank you one and all, Edward Lipinski @ Ferrets NorthWest FNW Was ich nicht weiss, macht mich nicht heiss. [G.] What I don't know doesn't make me glow. PPS. With respect to the FML, I am unable to receive transmissions therefrom, because in downloading (6 times) I've lost the ability to "tune" the FML into my computer, so excuse me if I don't reply to postings on the FML that concern my postings, because I don't know they're there. Hopefully in a week or so, this will be corrected. In the meantime you may transmit to me via my juno address that is attached to this transmission. [Posted in FML issue 2626]