Just occured to me today just how sad the internet is at the moment. A guy e-mailed me after being referred from another host to do some design work for him.

It went along the lines of "My name is..." and went on to ask how much it would be to add something to his site. The addition in question was attached as a .doc file.

My stomach shrank for a moment, while quickly remembering the last time I'd updated my virus definitions (yesterday actually) , the looked at the link to see if it had any odd extensions after it. Even feeling everything was peachy keen, I almost shut my eyes and kissed my computer goodbye as I opened it...

No red sirens, no evil messages, no smoke and flames.... *just* a document, plain and simple.

In cyberspace, no-one can hear you scream.

Greg Moore

Whenever I send attachments, e.g. text documents, I use .rtf which doesn't support macros....