It's like a class at school. One kid gets sick, comes to school and infects lots of others in the same class. Somebody on our list got a virus. It sent messages to everyone in his or her address book. MonGenes was in the address book, so we all got these messages. People on our list clicked the link and got infected too, so now their computers are sending the messages out too. This is not the fault of MonGenes, its moderators, or Yahoo. These are legitimate list members whose computers have been compromised. It seems like a lot, but it's really only a few compared to how many list members we have. It takes less than a second to recognize one of these messages and delete it. Chill out, delete it and be patient while the moderators sort this out. And for Pete's sake, don't click on the link! On Wednesday, June 12, 2013, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:02:09 +1000 > Gillian <gholt@energized4life.com.au <javascript:;>> wrote: > > Hello Gillian, > > 1: The accounts the spam messages ostensibly originate from are usually > yahoo (even the BT ones) accounts. > 2: Yahoo can't/won't sort out these issues. > 3: Yes, yahoo really are that rubbish. :-( >