A friend of mine in Holland sends me email he has created on an up to date version of Eudora mail. When he attaches a single or several jpgs to the email there is a space opens up in the text and the following appears:-
!Emacs
!Emacs
!Emacs
Then the photo or photos he attaches have the file names he has given them listed side by side in my Outlook Express Attachment line but the pictures themselves inline with the text seem to have been given a great long name separately of such file names as this...
!CID__6.2.3.4.0.2005090215
0935.02491
038@pop.pl
anet.nl[1]
.jpg
Pop.planet.nl is the name of his ISP by the way.
When I try to save any one of the photos to a local folder by Right clicking the actual jpg in the text it gives them all the same name. Yet saving them from the attachment line using SAVE ALL command they all get saved with the names he gave them when he attached them to the email.
Not only that but the photos are much larger (as data file size) than jpg's of that resolution would normally create - even though they're saved at a common 30% compression Progressive jpg. If I open them one by one in an application and then re save them with a new file name they save the proper size. Only when I let them carry on with their original file names as I save them, do they revert to the larger resultant size. When I say size I mean they end up in the file 275k instead of the expected 27k for a file that expands on screen to about 900k when viewed.
He has done all the Spyware checks and HiJacking tests - Registry combing for traces of this Emacs thing and drawn a blank on all of them. No viruses present all thoroughly checked and he has masses of backup devices like 300gig external drives so is a meticulously neat PC user who never leaves a stone unturned in seeking alien things.
I wonder if anyone can throw light on this?
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