need help in virus scanning

Hi all. My ISP offers pop3 (or whatever its called)-But I hardly use the
email account I have with them to access email. The email address that is
linked to this account is on our web page. But I have not given that out to
anyone. I have a yahoo address that I have on the business card if anyone
wants to email us something.
Anyways, I got an email in outlook express with this ISP address from
someone else who has the same ISP address. I am afraid to open it.It has a
paper clip next to it so I assume it is an attatchment. I right clicked on
the properties and it is 36k in size. I did not open it but saved it to my
desk top and rt-clicked on it to scan with avg. Nothing was found. Then I
scanned it with an expired norton 2002 and nothing was found. Am I doing the
right thing by scanning it this way and is it accurate and safe to open it
since the results came back negative. Of course I updated my AVG prior to
scanning. is ther an easier way to scan email prior to opening them. should
i open this one? please help

PA
Fri Feb 27 00:03:34 CST 2004

Do *not* open emails, especially with attachments, (1) from someone you
don't know; and (2) which you weren't expecting, even if it /appears/ to be
from somone you know. When in doubt, ask the sender about it in a separate
email or, God forbid, by telephone.

Scanning anything with an AV app whose definitions are 2 years out-of-date
is a waste of time, my friend.

If an attachment is a zip file, no AV app will scan the contents of the zip
(as an attached file).

Simple answer: Delete this and any other messages like it, unread.
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MR wrote:
> Hi all. My ISP offers pop3 (or whatever its called)-But I hardly use the
> email account I have with them to access email. The email address that is
> linked to this account is on our web page. But I have not given that out
> to anyone. I have a yahoo address that I have on the business card if
> anyone wants to email us something.
> Anyways, I got an email in outlook express with this ISP address from
> someone else who has the same ISP address. I am afraid to open it.It has a
> paper clip next to it so I assume it is an attatchment. I right clicked on
> the properties and it is 36k in size. I did not open it but saved it to my
> desk top and rt-clicked on it to scan with avg. Nothing was found. Then I
> scanned it with an expired norton 2002 and nothing was found. Am I doing
> the right thing by scanning it this way and is it accurate and safe to
> open it since the results came back negative. Of course I updated my AVG
> prior to scanning. is ther an easier way to scan email prior to opening
> them. should i open this one? please help