1.   First, users need to be careful about attached files sent to them, especially, but not only, if the source of the file is in doubt.

2.   Always scan the attached files first for worms.

3.   But users who have access to a PC will have the option of getting their mail complete with attached files on the Web.

4.   FreeMail Extended Family lets child and parent sites send mail, including attached files, to the host to be picked up by other child or parent sites.

5.   If you reply verbally, your correspondent receives your answer by e-mail as an attached sound file.

6.   Long messages are cut off or simply not delivered, and attached files, except plain-text memos, are removed.

7.   Reading the poisoned e-mail is harmless, but opening the attached file leads to heartbreak, or at least heartburn.

8.   The best defense is to scan all attached files of these types before looking at or running them.

9.   The freeware version, dubbed Eudora Lite, can send and receive attached files, and sort messages in a variety of ways.

10.   The recipient says when he opens the attached file, he sees only gibberish.