the email from Dick tried to come see me earlier, but I looked at it in a program that does NOT put it on my machine.

I use an email checker that reads my mail ON THE SERVER without actually downloading it...and allows me to delete it without it ever getting to my machine. (it was full of weird code, and had that double ending on it..,zip,ife or whatever

Then I have Norton....then I have 2 firewalls.....

and I would not use Outlook Express if you paid me!..I use Eudora, or Calypso, or Pegasus, or the email reader in Agent...

is all this overkill? perhaps, but even if I am sleepy and careless, all those safeguards scream at me if I even try to open a zip or an .exe without knowing exactly where they came from!