I didn't scan the attachment pretty much just steered clear of it. Here's a newbie question though: even if the attachment had come back clean from the virus scan, because it was an executeable file, couldn't it still have been malicious?

I recieved an auto reply from Prodigy, letting me know that the email had been recieved. The attachment was also broken down to the code level and while there was a lot of "apparent encoding" there seemed to be some identifiable strings similar to the "REGEDIT4" string of a .reg file. I could be wrong about this but it sure looked familiar.

P.S. I watch the forum off and on a bit but don't post a whole lot, just wanted to say thanks to those who have taken the time to reply.