>I also do not run any sort of active virus scanning on my workstation, because I've had nothing but trouble with any of the ones I've tried (McAfee, Norton, Inoculan). In 16 years of computer viruses, including being a
>student at Lehigh University when one fo the first computer viruses ever was released there, I have NEVER had a virus infection on any of my computers.

You're very fortunate. I know what to open and what not to open and I've been caught a few times. Fortunately, I do run a virus scanner, so every time but one in the last few years, viruses that arrived on my system were caught without infecting it.

Maybe my situation is different than yours in that I exchange a lot of documents (mostly Word, occasionally Excel) with other people. I have received a number of infected documents (including several times from people at Microsoft) since macro viruses came around.

I wouldn't work without a virus scanner.

Tamar