[at-l] New virus question

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 06:19 PM 7/26/2004 -0400, WhoAh wrote:
>Using social engineering techniques, this worm sends out an email with a
>spoofed sender's name and an email message that poses as a failure delivery
>notification. The email <default5.asp?VName=WORM_MYDOOM.M&Vsect=T>  it sends
>has varying subjects, message bodies, and attachment file names.
>Social engineering, a propagation technique that is widely utilized by most
>worm programs and a bane to most IT administrators and security engineers,
>invests largely on computer users' instinctive tendency to open email
>messages, execute attachments that are enticing and apparently harmless, and
>download and unknowingly open attractively named files. "
>More can be found at various antivirus sites, this one is from
>www.trend.com.
>Basically - if ya don't know the sender, don't open the dang thing..
>
>WhoAh

I go further than that. Because some viruses spoof the sender, even if I 
know the sender *but am not expecting an email with an attachment* I don't 
open it.