I opened up an e-mail this AM from our Izard Co. site and guess what?  It was a link to a porn site.  It seems that nothing is safe anymore and I can't trust any e-mail I get.  I am so tired of getting e-mails from people that have been hacked.  Tim Fackler you had better check you e-mail.  You have been HACKED! Mary

The e-mail servers on both AOL and Yahoo have been hacked. It's been suggested that if you have a Yahoo or AOL e-mail account to reset your passwrod. On 07/14/2012 09:09 AM, Mary f. Jones wrote: > I opened up an e-mail this AM from our Izard Co. site and guess what? It was a link to a porn site. It seems that nothing is safe anymore and I can't trust any e-mail I get. I am so tired of getting e-mails from people that have been hacked. Tim Fackler you had better check you e-mail. You have been HACKED! > Mary > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to ‘The United States of America’ for any amount, up to and including their life. _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

I understand these hackers attach onto outgoing mail, or incoming mail, etc.  If there is no subject in the subject line, that's usually a good indication it will be spam.   ________________________________ From: Billie Walsh <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Hacker The e-mail servers on both AOL and Yahoo have been hacked. It's been suggested that if you have a Yahoo or AOL e-mail account to reset your passwrod. On 07/14/2012 09:09 AM, Mary f. Jones wrote: > I opened up an e-mail this AM from our Izard Co. site and guess what?  It was a link to a porn site.  It seems that nothing is safe anymore and I can't trust any e-mail I get.  I am so tired of getting e-mails from people that have been hacked.  Tim Fackler you had better check you e-mail.  You have been HACKED! > Mary > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to ‘The United States of America’ for any amount, up to  and including their life. _ _...  ..._ _ _._  ._  .....  ._..  ...  .._ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

"My ancestry goes all the way back to Alexander the Great", said one Society lady. She then turned to a second woman and asked, "How far does you family go back?" "I don't know", was the reply, "All our family records were lost in The Flood. "

Very funny Harold. Thanks for the laugh. Lee Anne Harold Blevins wrote: "My ancestry goes all the way back to Alexander the Great", said one Society lady. She then turned to a second woman and asked, "How far does you family go back?" "I don't know", was the reply, "All our family records were lost in The Flood. "

And that porn site has your e-mail address now, too! I skipped right over that one, but it does seem obvious by looking at it now that I retrieved it from my trash that it's spam. If nothing else, the "nudy" in the URL should have been a good clue. That was from an att.net account, but I think everyone I know with AOL has been hacked. If anyone has corresponded with the Estes Genealogy guy, he's been hacked several times. I got one from his address the other day that contained no URL but read, "I have a very old photo to share with you if I have the correct email. Let me know this is still good email." Of course I didn't reply to it (if nothing else the poor English was a clue), but it was just some spammer trying to see if it was a working address so they could spam me (or worse). One of the main ways hackers/spammers get your e-mail address is when you forward things using the CC function and/or don't strip any previous e-mail addresses off them. Always use the BCC function instead of CC unless you're having a conversation among a handful of trusted contacts. Don't sign electronic petitions and forward them. Most of them are hype designed to scare people, e.g. the one about the government passing a law that prevents TV stations from broadcasting church services on Sundays. The government (fill in the branch) doesn't accept electronic petitions and all you're doing is broadcasting your e-mail address to potential spammers. Obviously don't click on any questionable link in an e-mail. Don't click on things purporting to be from your ISP, PayPal, your credit card company, or your bank, especially if they're asking for your personal information. If you think it might be legit, go to the company's website and look for the information there or call them. (This advice is true if someone calls you, too. Tell them you'll call them back. Don't take their word for the number. Look up the number and verify it yourself.) If a link seems legit, say from PayPal, and you roll your mouse over it, the real URL with the "https" designation should appear in the lower lefthand corner of the window. Often you can see it's trying to direct you to a different site. Change your e-mail password frequently. Run good malware and anti-virus programs and update them daily. The paid version of Malwarebytes ($25 one time) is great because it monitors in real time and updates the database every day. I like AVG Free Anti-Virus because it seems to do a better job than the paid programs and doesn't cause the conflicts some of the paid programs seem to. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary f. Jones To: izard Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 9:09 AM Subject: [ARIZARD] Hacker I opened up an e-mail this AM from our Izard Co. site and guess what? It was a link to a porn site. It seems that nothing is safe anymore and I can't trust any e-mail I get. I am so tired of getting e-mails from people that have been hacked. Tim Fackler you had better check you e-mail. You have been HACKED! Mary