I received a suspicious e-mail from a person I didn't recognize. It had an attachment and the password, as in the first message. I deleted the message without opening the attachment.

Later I got a message from Hallmark Cards saying they had blocked a message I had sent them because it contained a .zip attachment. Well, I didn't send that message, never heard of the employee it was sent to, and don't even know what a zip file is.

Could I have activated the virus merely by reading the first e-mail?

I went to the Symantec site and did the repair, and it said no virus was found. But how could that message have been sent to Hallmark with my e-mail address on it?

BTW, I have Norton Anti-virus and it updates itself regularly.