[Magdalen] can't open photo attached to email...

Roger Stokes roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
Thu Nov 24 08:58:24 UTC 2016


On 24/11/2016 03:37, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> You raise a very good point. We absolutely need to be vigilant about this
> sort of thing, and we
> re all at risk. I had a virus of some kind on my system, and had to restore
> my operating system. I don't know where I got it, but I would not be
> surprised if I got it from something like this.  At some time or other, all
> of us, perhaps in a hurry or just not thinking, will attempt to open
> something and infect our system.

Wearing one of my multitudinous hats I get emails from people who are 
barely computer-literate and apparently are still on Vista or XP. I am 
wary about messages from people in that group unless it is from one of 
the people I know is computer-fluent and has a recent OS.

Roger


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