Marged - it's the webmail account that got hacked - and as you probably know BT webmail accounts are run by Yahoo. BT will tell you to talk to Yahoo and Yahoo will either ignore you or send you a completely irrelevant boiler-plate reply. (I tried to get Yahoo to shut down a hacked account that was spamming members of my recycling group and they were just useless) As for those who clicked on the link... I'm not saying that you will definitely have picked up spyware, but it's possible. My husband (who works in IT and is quite knowledgeable about computer security) would probably tell you that the only way to be safe is to reformat your hard disk and start again (and he would also tell you to use Linux, not Windows...). Anti-virus software won't necessarily find malware/spyware, you need something like Spyware Doctor (downloadable from pctools.com) Angelika Marged wrote: > I had noticed that David Pontee was a BT customer - I will try and find a way of reporting this to BT. thank you Gordon > > I'm too scared to click on the link you sent, even though I know you wouldn't send something unsafe deliberately. Where will that link take me? > > Marged > > Hi Marged > > It's not just this list which is affected, as can be seen here :- > http://url.ie/6ycl > > Worryingly for you and I, it would seem that people with btinternet as their > isp are more prone to this type of hacking than most! > > Best regards > Gordon > > From: "Marged" <marged36@btinternet.com> > To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:34 AM > Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] (no subject) > > >Thank you for this Angelika - I got three of them and wrote to David > >Pontee about them but I didn't realise they had gone to the list (don't > >know why I didn't realise!) > >You are right - his account has been hacked. > >Marged > > > >This looks suspiciously like someone's webmail account got hacked (I see > >this sort of thing all the time on the mailing lists that I moderate). > >Whatever you do, folks... do NOT click on the links in any of the three > >emails that were posted from David Pontee's address (from IP addresses > >in Moldova, Poland and Croatia respectively, BTW). They are likely to > >take you to web sites that instal key loggers on your machine, and then > >you will be the next people to get hacked. (I have obscured the URL in > >this email) > >Angelika > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3030 - Release Date: 07/26/10 19:34:00 > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3030 - Release Date: 07/26/10 19:34:00 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >