how do you know that open a virus warning won't infect your computer.

I think most folk know how to protect their computers.  when a virus does crop up, it is usually posted reliably and reliably.  Your best protection beyond the usual is to sign up for an announcement which puts out legitimate reports.  I get mine through news feeds so I don't know any list addresses.

On Dec 8, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Stan Berman wrote:

While warnings that are not valid are a distraction, and experienced users of electronic systems should know the risks of opening attachments, visiting links for sites with which one has no previous experience, and so on, I prefer to have the warnings than not.
 
No antivirus or antispyware program can protect against any and all  threats. 
 
Not all malicious stuff gets into your computer by opening an e-mail attachment, or visiting a site you open.  There are e-mail messages that load content from a company web site rather than contain the full content within its wrapper.  So how do you know what risks you face before opening that message?
 
How do you know that opening a web page on a trusted site does not pose a threat? Sites of substantial organizations have been hacked. Redirects can take you anywhere.
 
Clearly there are experiences of individuals and organizations that suggest that there are challenges of increasing sophistication that need to be addressed.  Two financial institutions I know of have a log on sequence that generates an image and a separate phrase of the user's selection to validate that the site being visited is actually the intended site.  Now why would that be necessary if there were not a problem?
 
 
No one of us nor the products we use provide 100% protection against malicious intent, and I have no interest in losing access to 25 years ofpersonal and professional information and work or spending huge amounts of time and/or money to regain access.
 
Stan
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