I believe you are quite right, Paul.  I use Outlook Express from the MSIE
5.0 version.  Sometimes I get aggravated with MS programs attempting to be
too helpful and thus intrusive (like trying to write my Word letters for
me).  The program obviously came with Outlook Express.  It came up again
with your other posts, and with anyone who responded and quoted part of your
post.

Once I got over my alarm, I further investigated it, and here is the message
as it reads:
"Internet Explorer Install on Demand"
To display language characters correctly you need to download and install
the following components:
Japanese Text display Support
Size 2.7MB 23 minutes

I didn't mean to cry wolf, but since a comparatively innocuous virus spread
through Conch-L not long ago, I just wanted to be sure.  Personally, I don't
have a virus program installed, because by the time a program hits the
shelves in the store it is already outdated; also, virus programs are the
culprit oftentimes in causing problems with other programs.  I am on the Net
a lot, but take care to make backups frequently.  I never open an attachment
that the sender has not assured me is safe, which means I usually don't open
attachments.

Thank you for clearing it up.

Sylvia S. Edwards
Huntsville, Alabama
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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Callomon <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 9:13 PM
Subject: [CONCH-L] no viruses here


> Hi Sylvia and anyone else who is worried,
>
> I write my e-mails on the Japanese version of Eudora. Any Microsoft
> mail-reader detects that an incoming message from me was written on a
> Japanese machine and automatically assumes therefore that it will be in
> Japanese. It then scans your system and if it can't detect Japanese
> character support, it reasonably asks you whether you want to download
> Microsoft's own free Japanese character support plug-in. As I write in
> English, you don't need this and should simply press 'cancel'. This is not
> a virus.
>
> Paul Callomon.
>