In addition to the helpful advice to scan for viruses regularly, I'd
also strongly suggest that if you must use *certain programs that are
distributed with one particular operating system*, that you turn off
your preview pane.  Some trojans and viruses are written in such a way
that they can deliver their payload even if only previewed since these
*certain mail clients distributed as part of that operating system* can
execute code in previewed messages.  Other mail clients, like Pegasus
for instance, will not allow this.

It might be worth a little hassle to learn a new mail client that isn't
a bullseye for blackhat hackers.

regards,
Beth
sitting pretty in virtually virus-free Linux land...
No root for you!
--
  /\/\    Beth Johnson
 / o o\   Cosmic Wonderer
( / ^^\)  Springfield, MA USA
 \ M_M/   "Ruling a country is like cooking a small fish--
           you have to handle it with care."--Lao Tzu


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