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This morning, the incredibly helpful Norton Anti-Virus stopped an electronic menace from penetrating into our computer. Whatever behind-the-scenes voodoo the program employs to keep us safe from viruses also had the unpleasant side effect of destroying virtually all of the e-mail we've received in the last two months. So if you sent us a message in the last couple of days and we haven't responded, there's a chance it wasn't personal. Feel free to resend your recent tips, hate-mail, and urgent pleas for assistance in recovering your offshore fortunes.

And if you know anything about restoring a corrupted in-box or retrieving seemingly erased messages in Mozilla Thunderbird, please drop us a line.