This document will attempt to let you know the dangers, expose some myths and help you to protect yourself from evil email. One of the greatest advantages of using Netscape Messenger is the ability to send and read attachments. Web pages will immediately be displayed in your Messenger window just like they would be in Navigator without any intervention on your part. Documents are WordPerfect and other files that can be saved to your hard drive and then opened like any other doc. Programs are .exe files that you can save to your hard drive and run.
Web pages are essentially harmless as an attachment.
Many Microsoft Word documents contain Word Macro viruses, but as we use WordPerfect we are completely immune to this category of virus. The most dangerous type of attachment is the program. This doesn't mean that all programs are bad, but you should be wary of the programs you run. For example, Hallmark allows you to send animated greeting cards that are programs that need to be saved and run. They are harmless and fun.