Linda ~ that is scary ! Thanks for the warning !
Have you contacted the Garden Web/ People ?
Yesterday... I had to have my daughter do some things
to my computer... it was attacked by 2 different things.
I am Not very Wise on this Computer/ Hacking stuff...
but it is scary and I hear that if it is certain
virus that it can eat up all your files.

Thanks for the heads up !
God Bless !
SusieSunshine

I'm not so sure this 2009 is working out so
well for some of this computer stuff ! eeeekkkk !

Linda, I got a letter from you and you were selling new computers!!!! LOL I thought wow Linda is selling computers and electronics now.

Hi Linda, I got 1 yesterday & deleted it as soon as I read it. It had spelling mistakes & says you had just bought a lap top computer. Said you just love it. Didn't sound right at all!! Sorry someone got to you. When I send an email to someone I always put the address of people I'm sending to down under BCC so that only the 1 person that gets it gets their own address & mine, not all my friends. Don't know if that helps! But I think that is what you do also, don't understand hacking much!! My computer is working OK so don't think it did harm. Jan

my son got hacked. he had to change all his passwords.

Ack! I know how it is to be hacked. It really sucks. I don't know how many times I have had to reformat my hard drive because some fiend got into my computer. Thanks for letting us know Linda!

HI LINDA, They have screwed up my computer, I can't even get on my email & on GJ I can't scroll down, have to use mouse to move the page. So your computer may get screwed up also. Thought I better let you all know!! Started last night on GJ & this morning on email. Jan

Got that crazy email from you, too. Good thing there was no virus on it.

Sorry this happened to you. Wish there was some way you could find out who did it and get the guy.

When someone replied to my hot_mail, the dastardly message was there. Now when I hit 'new message', the thing is on the email before it's even addressed. I haven't had time to close the acct, because it's a pain to collect the addresses without sending them directly to another. This thing seems to affect hot_mail and yahoo. I googled it and see a lot of 'it's not us, must be the other guy' answers. I wouldn't have known it was sent, except there were 12 delivery failures (maybe I should weed out old addresses once in awhile, lol), and 4 messages from people I know asking if it was bogus. It didn't show up in my sent mail, even though it was apparantly sent to every one on my contact list. If they can do this, they can do a lot worse. Don't accept anything from my hot-mail acct. I'll close the acct and post a new address here soon. Linda

Linda, I am not a computer expert but I have been using computer for more than 20 years.... It sounds as if you have a big problem on your hands... If you are not computer savvy it would be a very good idea to take your computer in for a check up.

I can offer some suggestions so it doesn't happen again...

1. NEVER EVER post your e-mail address on a message board or Blog... The bad guys have programs that scan the entire internet for e-mail address... ( some just look for the @ in an address such as someone@something.com but there are other programs that look for at as in someone-at-something.com. )

2. NEVER EVER open e-mail from someone you don't know... It may look harmless but all it takes is 1 kb of info to destroy your computer.

3. NEVER EVER download anything from a site if you're not entirely sure that it is 100% safe...

4. NEVER EVER click on a pop-up that says your computer is infected and they have the 'cure'.... Hit the X to close the pop-up... ( unless you KNOW it is from your current virus protection program or your current spyware protection program ) Nine times out of ten whatever it downloads will put bad stuff on your computer.... Personally I never open ANY pop-ups, for any reason, I always click the X to close it.... ( then I close my browser, clear the cookies, delete the files and clear history. )

Those 4 things won't keep you 100% safe but they will slow the bad guys down quite a bit... lol

And thank you for giving everyone the heads up about getting e-mail from your Hot Mail account!!!!!!!

Rita
P.S. Please don't send any attachments from that e-mail address... You may want to hold off sending any attachments, from any e-mail address, until you have your computer checked out.

Thanks Rita, I'll get the computer checked out in the next couple of days. I'm not using that acct at all and will close it as soon as I write down the addresses I want to keep. I'm afraid to send them anywhere, so will copy them the old fashioned way.

I'll get a new address and not post it out in the open here. This dell email from someone's email that I know. I've gotten it twice in several months and didn't think much of it.

Jan, I hope that this didn't cause your computer problems. I've so far only had it send the emails out. We did a malware scan and found nothing, but will see when it's checked. Linda

Linda, The next day I emailed you, everything was normal again. Sometimes it is hotmail or firefox that do weird things. I can even scroll down on here!! Jan

Linda, if you're using Windows, you can Copy and Paste the e-mail addresses to Notepad without any ill effects.

If your malware/spyware program is up to date and the scan came up clean you might not have been hacked... It could just be someone spoofing your e-mail address... ( there are ways the bad guys can send mail and make it look as if it's coming from you ) Did your virus checker come up with anything?

Rita

is it a long, involved process to "get rid of cookies", etc.? i'm not very computer savvy and have never done this but keep hearing (reading) that it should be done.

Rita, Thanks for the info about moving my addresses. I had a virus a few months back that caused a lot more problems than this one. My virus scanner didn't come up with anything for this. The updates are current on this computer. It seems to be one of those spoofs, and just looks like it's coming from me. No one can tell me how to actually remove it from my email, so it will be closed soon.

Maggie, We set my computer to erase cookies, etc. every time it's shut off. DH knows how to do that. If you have a neighbor kid, around 8 yrs. old or so, he can probably show you how, lol.

Linda

thanks, linda. next time the gd's are visiting, i'll ask.