Free Computer Consultant Tip-Of-The-Week for August 22, 2008
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This Tip is going out later than I like this weekend, turns out we
had some REALLY nice weather I was outside taking advantage of
instead of getting a couple of screencasts done in the timeframe
I was hoping to.

If you watch the two videos I posted this weekend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxrbz33RH-A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMnNhvBSSQ

you will see one Windows Tip, "How to Add Notepad to the SendTo
Context Menu" as well as a demonstration of why it's handy to have
Notepad in the SendTo menu; "How to Safely Open a Suspicious email"

I always harp on users to never open a suspicious email, yet I
acknowledge that it's not always easy to tell, and there can be
valid reasons for wanting to be sure.

In the video I show an email message whose subject line was blank
in Outlook, yet, by looking in notepad, I could see a subject line
that indicated the message was indeed spam.

Sometimes you feel compelled to open an email because the name
looks familiar even though you don't know exactly who it is.

Especially in a business environment, you may feel you need to
open it.

NEVER open a suspicious email - in general. If you feel you
need to, do so as safely as possible. The video shows how.

Note that the video is somewhat misnamed for sake of brevity. Some
would argue that it's never completely safe to open an email period.
What I am trying to show is the safest way I can think of.

Until next time...

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