Be cautious of e-mails that claim to show pictures of the disaster areas in attached files, because the files may contain viruses.

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Some spam messages contain computer viruses that wreak havoc with the recipients' hard drives.

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In an unfortunate way, viruses in fact resemble international commerce in these times: It is hard to contain the effects.

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