Mail from Snow Leopard appears as suspicious on Windows

I am running Snow Leopard (10.6.4). I use Macintosh and my wife uses Windows. Because most of my emails are business related, we are both on the same address. In addition, because I have a number of computers, I send BCC to myself so that I can download responses onto all computers. Since I have gone to Snow Leopard, my BCC's often come into my wife's computer, marked as "suspicious". We have narrowed it down to the following: When ever I respond to a message that has used ClamAV, the response comes across as "suspicious" on Windows. It also seems to do the same thing when my response subject has Re: in it.
Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas why the mails might end up this way?

Were you ever able to solve this problem. I'm having similar issues since upgrading to snow leopard. Four macs connect to a Windows Server 2003 for shared files. Each user has full permissions & when we "get info" it shows read & write permissions. Two of the computers were running 10.4, two were running 10.5. Everything worked properly until upgrading to snow leopard. Some files let me copy, move, delete. Others either just hang up or we get a "no permission" error. Also getting a "pdf is in use" error, even when the file/folder doesn't contain a pdf. We had our IT rep check the server who said everything is in working order. They don't represent macs any longer but feel that it's a mac problem. I would have to agree since this problem only started after the upgrade, and the one machine that was not upgraded (still running 10.5.8) is not dealing with these problems.
Lastly, I would install 10.5 back on all of the computers if I could, but the leopard disk that came with one of the computers wouldn't work with the 2 machines running 10.4 and I didn't see it available at the apple store. I'll buy it if it's still available, but why wouldn't the disks that I have work?
Thanks for any help

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