Let's stick to genealogy please. Thank you. Joan Meddaugh <lpmj@juno.com> wrote: >List, > >I know this is a bit off topic but thought since this happened to me >today I should forewarn you all. > >Just recently I replied off list to a very nice individual to a request >that they had regarding a certain person in their family. > >I had gone to Ancestry,  clicked and then sent the person the e-mail >page.  There wasn't a problem when I sent it nor when the person got it >did they have a problem getting it. However when the person wrote back to >thank me, along with the e-mail came notice of an attachment with about 6 >files inclosed.  Assuming it hat it had come from the individual that I >had gotten the thank you e-mail from I opened it.  You can imagine my >surprise when I opened it up and found my husband's personal info that he >had recently sent to SS.  I didn't even stop to look in the rest of the >files to see what was there I was so shocked by what I did find.  I >immediately called my husband and had him check it out.  He was of course >shocked as well. >He told me that a while back he had sent that particular info to SS but >that had been about a month ago.  He  tried to get rid of it thinking >that it had been a worm or virus and had quite a time doing it.  I am not >sure if he really did or not. > >I wrote to the person that I got it from and they assured me that they >had not attached any thing onto the e-mail that they had sent me and I do >believe them.  And I again checked in my sent box to see if I had sent >them an attachment not realizing that I did and the answer was no. > >About the same time that I sent the first individual the info they were >looking for, I send another individual their's also basically the same >thing.  When they wrote back there was no attachment that came back with >their thank you. > >I thought it only decent on my part to share this with the list just >incase they happen to receive something similar or that something similar >might happen to them as well. > >Last year, I had a worm attack me very badly.  I was able to get and >receive e-mails ok but to get on the net and use other features on my >computer I could not do.  Even my fire wall and virus checker which was >brand new had been disabled.  It took my husband a 2 hour phone call with >Microsoft tech services to get it fixed. > >I would like to hear back from any of you that might have also had a >similar problem to day. > >Joan > > >==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== >To Unsubscribe from this list - send email to - >nymadiso-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word - unsubscribe in the body of the email.  If you are subscribed in Digest mode use the same address but change the -L- to -D-. > >