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To: Casaubon who wrote (12081)	4/26/1999 9:11:00 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 99985

Casaubon, It's pretty simple to avoid infection. Never open mail from someone you do not know! Never download software from the internet! Never copy anything from diskette to your hardrive, and never reboot your system with a diskette in the drive bay! Only use software from reputable vendors from CD. If you do this, it is virtually impossible to become infected. I do not wholly disagree with you, but thought I'd point out two big potential areas of virus ingress based on your comments: 1. "Never open mail from ..." The issue here is you have no idea what the people you know are doing. This is in fact how the Melissa virus spread so fast... 2. "Never download software from the internet..." This too is becoming an almost impossible thing to prevent. Javascript, ActiveX, Java applets - they are becoming pervasive throughout the internet. Sure, you can turn them off... but sometimes at the cost of functionality on certain web sites.