There is a new virus out, came out the end of last week and it looks like it is just making it's rounds here in the Truckee/Tahoe area. It is called the "Post Card Virus" and it is an attachment virus. The virus comes from someone you know saying that they have sent you a video postcard, or an email postcard or even just a postcard attachment, something like you could send from Disneyland/Disney World for example. It then infects your machine and it's really hard to get off. The things you can do to protect yourself is to make sure you have the latest updates from your anti virus program. We of course strongly reccomend PC-Cillin from Trend Micro. This can be downloaded from our website of: www.ltol.com then go to tools and then ta dah, you're there. We also suggest getting the latest updates from Microsoft: www.microsoft.com Be careful out there.

We always strongly suggest that if you don't know where an email is coming from, that you just delete it for safety sake. Photo's and postcards are tough to give suggestions on, this is vacation season, and getting a postcard from someone seems pretty safe, but it looks like little is safe out here in the online universe.