Thanks for the respose, Izzy. The little curly, as I call it, is acutally an oblong circle leaning to the right a bit. When I sent my post regarding this, the copied address (yours) was an attempt to capture the curly. I highlighted the little guy along with your URL address -- but it did not transfer. Got to be something unwanted.
The Trojan horse thing, that caused my problems, shutting down both computers down after a couple of months, came into my machine the instint I opened one your emails. It immediately disabled Norton (which I was not updating as I should) and I could not stop the resulting the detoriation.
Anyway - all seems healthy now -- just this little curly thing. Interestingly enough, in the past two weeks that I have been back on line, Norton has captured 1248 incoming ads !!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: ShieldsFamily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:40:31 -0500
Subject: RE: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [TruthTalk] mormon angels. was: Dave uses Socratic Method of Teaching LDS doctrine on TT
Sorry that you are having problems with emails from me. It sound like there is a tilde (~) sign appearing in the email somewhere that should not be there. I have asked my husband about this. We run several threat filters including Norton Internet Security 2005 and the new Microsoft AntiSpyware. These programs are continuously updated with new threat definitions. In addition to scanning all incoming and outgoing emails, full system scans are automatically performed on a weekly basis. So far, we cannot detect any threats (such as Trojan horses) that might be transferred to you via email. My husband also just ran a “detect and repair” reconfiguration of our Microsoft Office 2003 installation in case this is causing some type of non-standard characters to be included in my emails (such as smiley faces) that your computer does not have a character set to resolve into a recognizable character.. This problem can occur
when hypertext is used by the sender (e.g., to reply in colored font types) but the recipient computer does not have a similar font installed causing the incoming message to appear garbled. This is why some email lists stipulate that users communicate in plain text only.
Please let me know f the problem continues. It would also be helpful to see an example of the way the message appears on your end (e.g., printed in PDF format).
Incidentally, “For a Trojan horse to spread, you must, invite these programs onto your computers--for example, by opening an email attachment or downloading and running a file from the Internet.” (see http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/1999041209131106). Unless you opened an attachment that I sent with an email to Truth Talk, you could not have acquired a Trojan Horse from one of my emails.
Izzy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:20 PM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [TruthTalk] mormon angels. was: Dave uses Socratic Method of Teaching LDS doctrine on TT
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:20 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [TruthTalk] mormon angels. was: Dave uses Socratic Method of Teaching LDS doctrine on TT
Often, when you , Izzy, address me, there is a little curly something to the left side on the "incoming" mail line. Your's is the only one that has this marking. When it appears, and when I try to open your mail, it takes soemthimes 3 or 4 minutes to download and when I try to respond, it freezes up my machine.
The Tojan Horse that ruined my machine several months ago -- recently fixed - came in on the back of one of your email. I am wondering if you have some sort of virus or something. This is serious.
And I am not trying to insult.
When I see that little curly -- from now on I will delete. I am not trying to avoid you, but I can't afford to open those emails.
Does anyone know what is going on in this case? I copied the line above but it did not capture the "curly." It is some kind of demon, I am sure.
JD
