I opened the link to look at the pipe bowl and had no problems with viruses.

Jan Lloyd
Lab Director
Archaeology Institute
University of West Florida
Pensacola, Florida


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Branstner <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Feb 17, 2011 9:49 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Pipe Bowl ID
>
>Hey Folks,
>
>Just got a call from somebody (I apologize for having deleted the 
>message before I wrote down the name) of someone who suggested that 
>my IMAGESHACK link downloaded a bunch of viruses to her computer ...
>
>Talked to our IT guy, and that simply is NOT possible ... That is not 
>the way links work, and that would not have happened.
>
>If IMAGESHACK is corrupted, I can't speak to that, but the viruses 
>did NOT come from our computer system.
>
>Mark
>
>
>-- 
>
>Mark C. Branstner, RPA
>Historic Archaeologist
>
>Illinois State Archaeological Survey
>Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC-571
>23 East Stadium Drive
>Champaign, IL 61820
>
>Phone: 217.244.0892
>Fax: 217.244.7458
>Cell: 517.927.4556
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>
>
>When you think of that perfect retort five minutes after the 
>conversation is over -  that's when you're:
>
>  "... bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate ..."
>
>Edith Wharton in the "The Age of Innocence"