Virus in the Mail

Well, today someone tried to send me a copy of the Bagle.AY virus via my Hotmail account. It wasn't too hard to spot due to the failure to use correct English in the headder line "You are made active" and in the single line of the body in the e-mail "Thanks for use of our software". The actual virus came in an attachment called "Jol03.exe" which Hotmail blocked as an unsafe attachment. While this virus is so far rated as "low" by many internet security sites, all viruses are problematic once they get on your system. Hotmail does a good job of identifying suspect attachments, though sometimes it makes errors and falsely identifies a "clean" attachment as infected. Still, the best security is avoiding anything that looks suspicious such as E-mails like the one I recieved from unknown senders who don't know your name, refusing to download suspicious files, and keeping virus software updated.