Either your friend is reading in Plain Text and the e-mail contains HTML, or
they are using AVG (a good program) and have e-mail scanning enabled.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer
of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as
time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will
continue to protect you sufficiently.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Jack Gillis" wrote in message
...
A friend's email to me always shows a paper clip even though there is no
attachment to the message. Emails from others don't show a paper clip on
messages without attachments.

Would someone please suggest what might be causing this to happen?

Thank you.