Don't worry, you can never get a virus just by opening an e-mail. It's the attachments that can be big trouble. Never, ever, ever, never open an attachment if you don't know where it came from and what it contains.
Tommy TMead17372@aol.com
um, sorry! but this is from PCWorld website: Sam Costello, IDG News Service Monday, November 26, 2001 A new variant of a mass-mailer Internet worm that installs a backdoor program that can allow attackers to access recipients' PCs is spreading on the Internet, according to virus alerts from a number of antivirus companies. The worm, called Badtrans.B, is a new variant of the older Badtrans virus, according to antivirus companies. The variant is executed when a user opens an infected e-mail, and does not require a user to click on an attachment, as many mass mailer worms do, according to Activis and TruSecure virus alerts. The worm exploits a security vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail clients to automatically execute the attachment when the e-mail is opened, they said.