FYI to Tamara and anyone else with a Yahoo email account or AOL. These seem to be the two that get hacked all the time. You have to be careful what you click on like "sponsored links" or facebook is really bad with their games etc. Also be careful of both of their "messengers" and don't open or click on anything you don't recognize etc. The problem also is when these get out into lists like this Rootsweb list, people will click on the links and get hacked themselves. Then as happened in Tamara's case she got an email from a friend (probably also with a Yahoo account) and it just had a link and Tamara clicked on it. They often go to pharmacutical companies like in Canada or something. When in doubt you can copy/paste the link into your browser to see what it is before clicking on anything. Best remedy...... Change your password often and don't click on "just links". When you do get hacked - yes cleaning and running virus scans help always but just change your password. They have hacked your email account and that's how they got in. Janean -----Original Message----- From: va-northern-neck-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:va-northern-neck-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Tamara Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:52 PM To: va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com Subject: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Being hacked through your email Hello List! Just a note to apologize to anyone that received a "hacked" email from me today. It's weird just how hackers are able to do that. I had received an email from a trusted source and my "virus scanner" did not pick up on it as it came with a link, not an attachment. Regardless, it was an intrusion on my email contact list and I want to warn you that it can happen to anyone.  I ran a deep scan and yes, the it did show up and has now been contained, but I wanted to give you a heads up not to go to any site (link) that you might have received from me yesterday or today. Just to be on the safe side. Again, my apologies to anyone that this has affected. My best, Tamara Mitchell ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message