Andrea,

I agree...I think most of us on this forum are probably a little more "sophisticated" than the average computer user. As I posted above, I routinely delete email with unexpected attachments. I bet I miss a lot of funny jokes and things because of this.

I also use my computer for business, and it is vital to that business, so I send a very cordial but firm email to senders of unexpected attachments. It tells them that while I either, love them, like them, appreciate their business, etc., I cannot afford to have a system crash. It goes on to tell them how to be sure I will look at something they want to send.

I also don't open those that are fwd;fwd;fwd;fwd, you know what I mean?

Of course, I also use Norton AV2001 which gets updated definitions every time I log on, and it does a manual update every Friday.

I think most people don't do all of this.

I am curious how you set up to reject those emails.