>You can save it as a .txt file and look at it in
>notepad or other text editor. Just be careful that
>windows doesn't try to run it, normally if it is
>tagged .txt windows will just load the data into
>the text viewer and it's pretty safe.
>-Roman

Better yet, don't view it by clicking on it.  Open
your favorite viewer first and use Open
to read the file in.

>The very first thing I do when using a Windows
>computer is disable write cacheing

Where do I go to change write cacheing?

>regarding the attachment, it
>is an .xls.pif.
> I'd rather not ask the sender
>what it is- afraid of being on
>more mass mailing list.
>rf

Since it is a worm or virus, it is exceedingly
likely the sender isn't even aware of any of this,
and couldn't tell you anything.

Barry

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