ARHU-TELL Technology in Education & Learning Letter

Operations Updates...

Beware of Viruses- don’t open those attachments!
With all the new computer viruses appearing, we want to be sure that people do not open attachments that have an extension of .exe, .bat, .com, .pif, .scr, .mp3, or .zip (they should call x52104 about whether to open files with this extension). These attachments are usually associated with the viruses that are constantly bouncing around in our email. Also look out for files with a double extension (e.g. work.doc.pif) as these are almost always viruses. Please remember that even if you know the person listed as the sender of the message, when you see one of the above extensions -- DO NOT OPEN IT -- the person you know could either be infected or, more likely, their email address has been "spoofed" by the virus itself. You can view a full list of unsafe file extensions on Microsoft's support site.
Be careful out there folks!
Jon Boone