cant open doc???

homealone_2

have been sent a document as attachment, but when i click on find it comes up with this screen

http://shell.windows.com/fileassoc/0409/xml/redir.asp?EXT=doc


have clicked on few of the options but cant say i am any wiser, one of the choices led me to this


http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ca/en/Product/1207676528492?trkid=winfile#tabview=tab0


which confused me even more, can anyone help please?

Lil306

That appears because you don't have Microsoft Word installed on your computer.

You could try opening it with Wordpad, however it would be a bit crappy

You can install OpenOffice which will allow you to open this type of file and work with it

Open office is free...

talk2alex

Or because you do have word, but it isn't actually a word file. (i.e. could be a virus or something in disguise)

Lil306

talk2alex wrote: »

Or because you do have word, but it isn't actually a word file. (i.e. could be a virus or something in disguise)

It's most likely they don't have word, that site appears when the program to open that file extension isn't found.....

The only way a virus could affect it would be if it naffed up the extensions for opening .DOC files, if that's what you mean my apologies

talk2alex

It is. Sort of.
I meant I've seen viruses disguised by putting the .doc extension on the end of them (even though they are .exe)

I just assumed that the homealone would have Word as they knew it was a document.

I guess I should never assume! .....

Lil306

talk2alex wrote: »

It is. Sort of.
I meant I've seen viruses disguised by putting the .doc extension on the end of them (even though they are .exe)

I just assumed that the homealone would have Word as they knew it was a document.

I guess I should never assume! .....

I know what you mean now, quickest way of checking this is by enabling hidden file extensions.

Correct about assumptions, however you're correct to err on side of caution.