subject line. Normally I just delete mails with no sub - even if friends are senders. My friends know that I like to keep my computer save. I knew the sender and opend the mail - voila malware and I had to shut down and clean up the mess.

My virus protector caught a virus 2 days ago but did not heal it as the file was to big. It was in my downloaded embird software application older one than I currently have.. I deleted it immediately and so far all is good. It said backdoor virus have done 4 scans since and no virus so hopefully I got it...you cannot be too careful where viruses are concerned...Hugs Sally

HI SOOZIE HERE FORM AUSTRALIA...i work for a computer repair company and at least 50% of our work is for virus removal it is nearly impsssible to 100% guard against viruses as there is more than 50 new viruses posted on the net each day some extremely dangerous that will imoblise your computer some just not too bad and until the virus is posted on the net your virus protect programe cannot find a cure for them they can sit dormant in a programme and when opened it activates them there are many ways they manifest.....hope this is some help to you....soozie

HI SOOZIE HERE FORM AUSTRALIA...i work for a computer repair company and at least 50% of our work is for virus removal it is nearly impsssible to 100% guard against viruses as there is more than 50 new viruses posted on the net each day some extremely dangerous that will imoblise your computer some just not too bad and until the virus is posted on the net your virus protect programe cannot find a cure for them they can sit dormant in a programme and when opened it activates them there are many ways they manifest.....hope this is some help to you....soozie

eeek, luckily you caught it and cleaned it, yay for you :)

One of my email accounts was hijacked last year, and if your account sends spam you're automatically banned from some groups, that sucked. However I got my account back, and now keep no one's details in my addy book so no point of them doing it again lol (I hope not, anyway). xXx

I belong to a private group of embroiders. We mostly have a lot of laughs. But do help each other out if needed. Well, a hacker got into the mail account of one and did some pishing. That is a mess to figure out. They send out letters FROM your account, so it comes from you! Then delete them from the sent folder so you don't know anything about it. The only way to stop them from sending from your account is to change your password so they can't get back in.

And they do something so that if you hit reply, it goes to their account not the person's who sent it. So you have to send that person a letter from your address book to let them know what's going on.

If they hack into my live.com or any other mail accounts they don't have any addresses except from the letters in the IN box and the trash. So I clean these up all day long. MY addresses are on an Incredimail account that's only on this computer. They would have to get into this computer to get to my addresses. And Incredimail will pull mail out of most any place, yahoo, gmail, live.com, etc. And I have selected the option not to leave a copy of the letter on that account. So auto cleaning. I think there are several such programs out there that do the same. I'm not just pushing this one. It just happens that I have used it for about 15 years with excellent results.

Horrible that people don't have anything better to do than messing up other people's computers.

This is a good warning to all of us.

There have been a lot of no subject mails in mine lately. I think it's the latest ploy by the hackers to get to people. Just delete, and then perhaps write to the person you thought sent to let them know they might have been hacked.

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by muflotex 20 May 2011

Yes I did that too to let her know someones messing with her account.

Viruses are NO friends of mine! It happened to me before. I have Adware also *2U

So sorry you had a virus but very glad you were able to get rid of it. I did a bit of cleaning up on my computer yesterday. Thanks for reminding everyone...you can't be too careful.