especially with a list like this the safest thing to do is not click on a link, unless it makes sense to you, but most of us on this list will not post links. Maybe there should be a rule where as if we are to send a link we do it spaced out like www. yahoo. com and then delete the spaces? just a thought. I myself received a terrible virus from facebook in an email from an old history teacher ... thought it was odd he would send me an email with a link, clicked on it anyways, and was instantly infected. It cost me over 300 to fix this "worm" as it was called. I have Norton and luckily it scans this email so I didn't even receive the message. I looked through my spam folder once and found an email from my yahoo account to this one about prescriptions, I never sent that! Spam is horrible, unless you are expecting an email with a link in it you should never click on the link.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Connors" <nymets11@pacbell.net> To: "ny irish" <ny-irish-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:31 PM Subject: [NY-IRISH] ADMIN MSG: spam email sent > The list just posted an email with the subject, "hello friend". Do NOT > click on the link in the body of the email, it is spam and could also > infect your computer. Since I have had this happen to me when I signed > up on Facebook, I know the 'so-called' poster is upset. His address was > spoofed and made to look like the email was from him but it wasn't. > > This is a good time to warn: if you ever get an email, either > personally sent to your email address or one posted to a list with just > a link in the body, be suspicious and just delete it. As a list admin, > I stop most before they hit the lists but they are getting trickier and > some get through the filters. > > So, if you join a social program, like Facebook, beware that they copy > your Address Book from your computer. Then if they have poor security, > scoundrels from all over the world hack into them and get all those > email address and send out the spam emails with the person's email > address. Also, be careful when you go to websites through search > engines, even Google. Some searches will take to sites that can infect > a virus in your computer. Only go to sites that you know are safe. > > While the current post to the list is not open to discuss, discussing > this problem is open, especially if one wants to offer ways on how to > keep our computers secure. > > -- > Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com > > ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== > Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, > check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >