Update: FCP, Mac Email, Viruses, and Norten

[David Thrasher]

Could your e-mail program be a Microsoft product (Outlook, Entourage) per chance? Microsoft products are notorious for macro viruses. If you eliminate a Microsoft e-mail program that could at least narrow things down somewhat as to the cause of the problem.

-Dave

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Ryan

Thanks for your response and I'm sure you're right, but all I know is 
what I'm experiencing.

I completely erased Emac hard drive, repaired permissions and disk with 
disk first aid, reinstalled all system software from the original CD's, 
reinstalled (from scratch) a limited amount of software (photoshop and 
FCP) and re-updated all software via Software Update.   So basically a 
pristine system.

After reinstalling everything, everything was working including FCP. 
Then I got my email.  The same person emailed me with the same 
unintended attachment.  And all the email disappeared.  I did not yet 
have Norten installed.  Though I have not tried to download, FCP seems 
to work fine.

Lynn