Unknown registration request - virus?

From: George (bohemianlad_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/16/03 

Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:54:20 -0700

>Asking to register a program? Sounds like it's already
>installed.
>Have you checked what's loading on startup??
>What operating system are you using?
>What's the firewall ?

Isn't it unusual for a program to prompt for registration
out-of-the-blue without even being run? I mean that's
what made me suspicious in the first place, otherwise I'd
just have thought it was something that had come pre-
installed and I'd never got round to using. I've checked
what's loading on startup, and there's nothing 'obvious'.
I'm running Windows XP, and using Norton.

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