Hi again, I received this off list from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (thanks) >Here is the source of your last message: since you wrote them in html (grrr), an ActiveX applet has managed to worm its way in - it looks to me like a virus of some >sorts. As you can see, it mentions autoexec.bat and the registry - get virus checker please! > >In the mean time (actually always!) write in plain ASCII! Well first, sorry to everyone for this scare. I guess MS Outlook did something that I was not aware of...first send messages in HTML. Sorry, I didn't realize that it was doing that. I know how annoying it looks, but at the time is was the only e-mail program I had. As for the Active X thing, I'm afraid I don't even know what it is or what to do about it. I do have a anti-virus program (Norton AntiVirus) but it didn't pick anything up. If anyone can send me some information about how this happened or how to stop it, I would greatly appreciate it :-) For now I'm using a different e-mail program that sends in generic ASCII (thank goodness). I'm attempting to send e-mail to myself to try and catch MS Outlook in the act. Again, apologies to all! Evan Holt