I do Don, from my friends and relatives. But, they all use the firewall and
keep their systems updated. None of us have ever gotten a virus.
"Don" dbitzerATcomcastDOTnet wrote in message
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I never open any attachments from any source, known or otherwise.

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"Gordon" wrote:

"Unknown" wrote in message
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You say it happens all the time. Where do you get your statistics? In
at
least
22 years I have NEVER gotten one. That's MY statistic.

Well you are probably in a minority tending to one then.
I can't find any actual statistics, but if you go a google on this
subject,
there are HUNDREDS of articles talking about viruses being received in
attachments from known sources. What about Mellissa? That sent out viral
attachments from the infectee's addressbook - ie a KNOWN source to the
recipients. That's how it spread so widely in the first place - because
people opened an infected attachment from a KNOWN source without
thinking!