I believe the original message was a "phishing" attempt. It had an
attached ActiveX control -- I'm not sure what it was designed to do, but
it probably wasn't kosher (a lot of these send your email address back
to the senders so they know who has a live connection that can be tapped
into; you can set your internet browser to deactivate those). There's
been a rash of these lately that work by using a line in the header that
alarms the reader into opening the message and clicking on the link in
it (there's even a term for being tricky like that: "social
engineering"; it makes "malware" more virulent). 


The FTC has a good list of suggestions on the topic at the address
below:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/phishingalrt.htm



Bill Spruiell

Dept. of English
Central Michigan University

-----Original Message-----
From: Edgar Schuster [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:35 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Payment

I didn't buy anything.

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