I didn't Use My computer on thursday, so it was a bit of a shock after connecting to the internet on friday, when I see 150 emails all with attachments, sent from different addresses mostly in the US..
My Nortons professional anti virus had deleted the attachments, but they also had a website address to view the attachment [all websites had same addresses] .
Then on Saturday, I checked My Yahoo mailbox, and I had 75 more emails with virus attachments with the same website address to view the attachment [with virus] in My BULK yahoo folder. I normally just delete these as spam, but seeing the large number I decided to have a look... there in the middle was an email with photo from My brother in law...
with no virus...
So, Be wary of attachments , if You don't run the latest in anti virus software. Mine updates automatically each day and scans My hard drive every Friday night at 8pm...
All these attachments had been deleted by Yahoo...
So, even opening an email with attachment from someone You know can give You a Virus, as Your friend May NOT have sent the email... It may have come from someone else's address book... BE CAREFUL ..
My Son tells Me that I receive more viruses than anyone else in His ISP... I usually receive 1-3 per day... others receive none... Lee
Lee
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