all of a sudden,

[Shelly]

my messages seem to be appearing in code!!!!
Like this-----

Jryy sbyxf, V ubcr V'z abg bcravat hc n pna bs jbezf ba guvf. V
frnepurq
gur hfrarg nepuvirf ba tbbtyr nobhg guvf, naq abguvat dhvgr nafjrerq zl
dhrfgvba, fb...

If I hit the forward button, the forward message then appears in
English!

What sayest the master GURU?

P.S. I'm looking forward to some Texas pix.

[C J Campbell]

"Shelly" > wrote in message
...
| my messages seem to be appearing in code!!!!
| Like this-----
|
| Jryy sbyxf, V ubcr V'z abg bcravat hc n pna bs jbezf ba guvf. V
| frnepurq
| gur hfrarg nepuvirf ba tbbtyr nobhg guvf, naq abguvat dhvgr nafjrerq zl
| dhrfgvba, fb...
|
| If I hit the forward button, the forward message then appears in
| English!
|
| What sayest the master GURU?
|

Not the master GURU, but you are sending your messages scrambled in ROT13,
where every letter is replaced by a letter 13 characters from it. When you
forward the message, it runs it through ROT13 again, which unscrambles it.
Somehow you have set up ROT13 as your default.

ROT13 is used to transmit messages that are offensive. That way only those
who are interested in such messages have to read them. It is not intended to
provide any kind of security.

[Darrel Toepfer]

"Shelly" > wrote...
> my messages seem to be appearing in code!!!!
> Like this-----
>
> Jryy sbyxf, V ubcr V'z abg bcravat hc n pna bs jbezf ba guvf. V
> frnepurq
> gur hfrarg nepuvirf ba tbbtyr nobhg guvf, naq abguvat dhvgr nafjrerq zl
> dhrfgvba, fb...
>
> If I hit the forward button, the forward message then appears in
> English!
>
> What sayest the master GURU?
>
> P.S. I'm looking forward to some Texas pix.

Some VIRII infected computers put taglines like you describe. However it
reads more like ROT13 (encoding/decoding) has been enabled and needs to be
disabled...

Unscrambling the above with ROT13, reads the following:

<quote>
Well folks, I hope I'm not opening up a can of worms on this. I
searched the usenet archives on google about this, and nothing
quite answered my question, so...
</quote>

[Ron Natalie]

"C J Campbell" > wrote in message ...
> ROT13 is used to transmit messages that are offensive. That way only those
> who are interested in such messages have to read them. It is not intended to
> provide any kind of security.
>
Also used to temporarily hide the answers to puzzles or punch lines to jokes.

[Richard Lamb]

Shelly wrote:
>
> my messages seem to be appearing in code!!!!
> Like this-----
>
> Jryy sbyxf, V ubcr V'z abg bcravat hc n pna bs jbezf ba guvf. V
> frnepurq
> gur hfrarg nepuvirf ba tbbtyr nobhg guvf, naq abguvat dhvgr nafjrerq zl
> dhrfgvba, fb...
>
> If I hit the forward button, the forward message then appears in
> English!
>
> What sayest the master GURU?
>
> P.S. I'm looking forward to some Texas pix.

What kind of Texas pix are you looking forward to seeing?

Thumbnails are 800x600
Full sized prints shipped truck freight only...


Richard
www.flash.net/~lamb01

[Shelly]

Guys, thanks a lot