Hello all, While this is not of a genealogical nature I feel I want to let you know about a problem I had on Sunday July 11th with my email. About 10:00 am Sunday morning I read my email and shut down to go to church. About 9:00 pm that evening I went back online to read mail and you can imagine my horror when I discovered all my email had been deleted (at any given time I keep 10-12 emails as new to refer back to), all my old mail and all my sent mail had also been deleted. Instead of my usual genealogy emails I had a horrible birage of what I call "garbagy smut". According to AOL, somehow someone got a hold of my password (I have never given it to anyone, not even my husband) and went in and changed my profile so that it indicated I wanted to receive this kind of trash. This person then sent trash to others using my screen name. AOL was notified by some of the recipients of this so they sent me a letter of warning (and rightfully so-they also deleted my profile thank goodness). My reason for telling you all this is threefold-one as a warning-I still am not sure what caused this, however, AOL says it possibly came in on an attachment from someone as a "Trojan Horse" thereby causing someone to be able to gain access to my password. They warned to make sure before you open an attachment you know the sender. Sorry to say our world has come to this. Second is that if anyone wrote to me on Sunday July 11th I dare say I did not receive it! Who knows what was deleted! And third is I pray no one on any of the mailing lists I belong to received any garbage from my screen name ([email protected]) but if by some chance you did, please know that it was not I who sent it and I would appreciate hearing from you. Thank you for listening to me! Melinda Roles Jacquier P.S. If you belong to more than one mailing list you will probably get this letter more than once-sorry!