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From: steve (smay0man@cs.com)
Date: 11/06/02 

From: "steve" <smay0man@cs.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:44:09 -0800

shortly after getting on line i received a message which said
something to the effect of windows has detected bank and
financial passwords and other access information that is
not protected or encrypted in your computer which are
available to anyone and you should emediately go to some
site and download some thing to fix the problem. i didn't
want to take any chances so i closed it and have been
trying to figure out how to check this out. when i was
looking for help i didn't figure since i had paid for the
windows program xp that i shouldn't have to pay more money
to find out if it is really secure or not.
                        can some one enlighten me.
                          thanks, steve