This morning, here in S.E. New Mexico, U.S.A. an email arrived from Bill Norrie.... No message, just click on some singles website!

Most likely a SPAM message....Looks like Bill's contacts list has been hacked!

Elizabeth

The one received had a virus threat attached to it.
I dumped it

Regards
Peter B

Yes I received it too and deleted it - I haven't heard from Bill for quite some time...hope he's ok....

Sorry Guys and Gals - nothing to do with me I even got some from myself !!

Some PEST has hacked my alternative Hotmail (xxxxxx at Live.co.uk) address and to add insult to injury, has included a virus in the emai!!
If anyone else receives emails supposedly from me, if the address is not the one in my profile....just dump them please.

I do not use my alternative email address to contact 'KN' friends.
Apologies again........

Bill,

I received the same email. You need to change your Hotmail /Live Mail password, otherwise it may continue.

Just trying to help

Regards
Larry

Hi All,

I also received this spam email supposedly from Bill and to make matters worse, I tried to contact Bill to warn him about it and it was returned as 'undeliverable' However, I've deleted it but I suspect it is still on the PC somewhere so will do a scan to see what's happening.

I knew immediately, it wasn't from Bill because years ago I missed a letter out of an email addess and he received a 'naughty' email from me, at the time, it was so embarrassing as I was new to this forum and wasn't sure how Bill would react, but I've since met him in person and he's a great guy. We still laugh about that moment....

Audrey

Bill,
I also received a not-to-nice email a few days ago.
From its content I knew it could not be you.
John C.

Thanks for all your observations...

Larry, thanks for you comment - the first thing I did when I became aware of this problem was to change my password - in fact, I make a habit of changing my passwords fairly regularly.....

I've received quite a bunch of emails to the affected address, designated as 'Undeliverable' and having examined the headers of these emails, I find that many of the addressees are no longer in my address book! In particular, there are two of our late 'KN' friends included - Fran Durham and Chuck Piper - both of whom died quite a long time ago. Their email addresses were removed from my list years ago, so I can only assume that the IDIOT who originated these emails, must have harvested all the addresses a long time ago and for some inconceivable reason, has just decided to inflict this rubbish on us. One wonders at the mindset of sad people like this, who have nothing better to do than propagate potentially harmful emails to all and sundry. What kind of 'kick' do they get out of doing so ??? Most internet users nowadays, are sufficiently 'savvy' not to be taken in by these stupid emails and generally just dump them, so what is the point?

This has been going on for years. As soon as you have posted a emailadress at the web, either at your own homepage or otherwise, robots searc the web, hijack and use your email adress as visible "sender".
Several of my adresses used, and being blacklisted an mass.... I don't care anymore, other than change email when see such ,ails from "myself" bump in.

Got "your" mail as well Bill, but as I use MailWasher, it got dumped before reach my PC. Great software.

Thanks Gunnar I also use Mailwasher and have been doing so for as long as I can remember.... It IS a great program!

How do you get this mailwasher please? I think I may be protected through Windows Defender but am not sure, so perhaps I should take a look at this.

Audrey

Hi Audrey,
Here's the link :
http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/mailwasher-pro/download

I suggest you go for the Mailwasher Pro (Not the 2011 version) on that page. I'm using a paid version - not sure if the version I've quoted is free, now that there is a later version (2011)

Mailwasher is not actually a 'Protection' program as such, it just filters out the Spam and marks it as such, before you actually download your emails to your PC.

Basically, it looks at the emails in your ISP's 'In Box' and presents their details on your PC screen. The actual emails are NOT downloaded until you have examined the content. Typical Spam emails are displayed in a different colour to 'genuine' emails and you also have the option to mark any of the entries as Spam or Friend should you wish to do so.
The program will gradually build a 'Blacklist' and 'Friend List' database, against which all your emails are compared.

When you are happy with the content displayed, you then click on a 'Process Mail' Icon and the 'genuine' emails are downloaded to your email client's 'In Box' and the Spam emails will be deleted from your ISP's 'In Box' - not download to your PC.

The program is only applicable if you are using an email client on your PC such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail etc......
If you use Web based email then it's pointless installing it, since your email is not actually downloaded to your PC.

However, looking at your email address (BT) I would expect that you are using an email client program ????

If you use Bt Yahoo you will have a box which bt puts all 'spam' messages in and you can spam any others as you wish.
Never had any problems.

Regards
Peter B