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mellman01

Right you lot who wants a orible cold I've got one I don't want so feel free to put your hand up come on don't be shy!. oh where did I get it from?, well get this from my lap top PC my nipper has been sneezing over it for a week. a real PC virus how ironic!.

frogmorton

Mellman
You can keep it!!!
Better ask Kim off clebrity how to clean your keyboard.
Hope you feel better soon.
Rehab I will pass it on
Toni xx

oneday

I keep getting stupid spam mail!! and alot for viagra!

livinglegend

Hi rehab

Here we go again, this has been in circulation since Valentine's Day, Feb 2008. Simply googling 'email postcard virus' would have given the answer.

False email alert warns of 'the worst virus ever' circulating in the form of an attachment labeled 'POSTCARD' or 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK.'
See: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm

Keep your antivirus up to date and if you don't have one, (too costly), then there are free ones about. No excuse for not installing one. AVG and Microsoft Security Essentials spring to mind.

Always be very careful concerning which attachments you open and which files you download. If you can't be reasonably sure they are safe, don't open or download them. You don't need to shut down your computer as suspicious emails should be simply deleted without opening.

Joseph 8)

carol101

livinglegend wrote:

Hi rehab

Here we go again, this has been in circulation since Valentine's Day, Feb 2008. Simply googling 'email postcard virus' would have given the answer.

False email alert warns of 'the worst virus ever' circulating in the form of an attachment labeled 'POSTCARD' or 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK.'
See: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm

Keep your antivirus up to date and if you don't have one, (too costly), then there are free ones about. No excuse for not installing one. AVG and Microsoft Security Essentials spring to mind.

Always be very careful concerning which attachments you open and which files you download. If you can't be reasonably sure they are safe, don't open or download them. You don't need to shut down your computer as suspicious emails should be simply deleted without opening.

Joseph 8)

AVG comes highly recommended by my cousin and he is a programmer for Microsoft

Carol X

debbierose

carol101 wrote:

livinglegend wrote:

Hi rehab

Here we go again, this has been in circulation since Valentine's Day, Feb 2008. Simply googling 'email postcard virus' would have given the answer.

False email alert warns of 'the worst virus ever' circulating in the form of an attachment labeled 'POSTCARD' or 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK.'
See: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm

Keep your antivirus up to date and if you don't have one, (too costly), then there are free ones about. No excuse for not installing one. AVG and Microsoft Security Essentials spring to mind.

Always be very careful concerning which attachments you open and which files you download. If you can't be reasonably sure they are safe, don't open or download them. You don't need to shut down your computer as suspicious emails should be simply deleted without opening.

Joseph 8)

AVG comes highly recommended by my cousin and he is a programmer for Microsoft

Carol X

I use avg it is very good.

livinglegend

oneday wrote:

I keep getting stupid spam mail!! and alot for viagra!

About 90% of all emails are spam. I use one email address for friends and family and a totally different one for buying/registering online. The second one is cleared out without reading once a week, if I haven't ordered anything.

Googlemail and Hotmail are both free to sign up to and will filter out most spam automatically. You will always get a small amount through the filters, but marking these as spam helps everyone as the online filters are updated.

Never reply or unsubscribe to any email you don't recognise, as it tells the spammers that you have an active email address. Your email address is then distributed and targeted as active.

Joseph 8)

trisher

Joseph

We will let the other peeps know in the morning

Trisher xx

oneday

livinglegend wrote:

oneday wrote:

I keep getting stupid spam mail!! and alot for viagra!

About 90% of all emails are spam. I use one email address for friends and family and a totally different one for buying/registering online. The second one is cleared out without reading once a week, if I haven't ordered anything.

Googlemail and Hotmail are both free to sign up to and will filter out most spam automatically. You will always get a small amount through the filters, but marking these as spam helps everyone as the online filters are updated.

Never reply or unsubscribe to any email you don't recognise, as it tells the spammers that you have an active email address. Your email address is then distributed and targeted as active.

Joseph 8)

Hello
I do have different email addresses for different things, ie.friends,ordering on line etc.
I got another email for viagra and wanted to know which email address they used so perhaps i could delete it etc. When i opened it it was one I only use for a couple of friends. One friend is abroad, do you think she has had a virus herself and its gone through her address book.
Then i opened another which said to undisclosed recipients so i didnt know which email address they used but i think it might have been from something I ordered.
How do these companies get your email addressess and should i just delete.
thanks for help.

joyful164

livinglegend wrote:

Hi rehab

Here we go again, this has been in circulation since Valentine's Day, Feb 2008. Simply googling 'email postcard virus' would have given the answer.

False email alert warns of 'the worst virus ever' circulating in the form of an attachment labeled 'POSTCARD' or 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK.'
See: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm

Keep your antivirus up to date and if you don't have one, (too costly), then there are free ones about. No excuse for not installing one. AVG and Microsoft Security Essentials spring to mind.

Always be very careful concerning which attachments you open and which files you download. If you can't be reasonably sure they are safe, don't open or download them. You don't need to shut down your computer as suspicious emails should be simply deleted without opening.

Joseph 8)

We have just gone through a minefield with ours. Have now had bulldog and an upgrade. £90 worth. Joy

livinglegend

Hi oneday

to undisclosed recipients so i didnt know which email address they used but i think it might have been from something I ordered.
How do these companies get your email addressess and should i just delete.

To 'undisclosed recipients' is usually spam, simply delete unread.

Hackers can steal online address books and if you buy anything from a dicey seller it can be passed on. Also spammers sweep websites for email addresses, so make sure you never post your email address on any websites. Hidden or otherwise.

If your address book is on your computer then it is reasonably safe if you have antivirus. If it is held online at one of the online email sites then your online address book should be deleted. This makes it difficult if you want to send an email from that account, but just use copy and paste from your computer address book. If it asks to save to online say 'No'. Naturally other people may not be so security minded with your email address.

Your email address is never safe whatever you do, someone will want to spam it. While people continue to reply to or order from spam sites then they will flourish. ISPs could shut them down but they would lose money so its not in their interests to act.

A friend of mine has a regular well distribute emailed newsletter from someone she knows, which always contains a virus. She won't inform them as she, "doesn't want to upset them". I did, and their reply was that they kept meaning to update their antivirus, but it was only updated 2 years ago so it wasn't them sending viruses out. No further comment needed!

Joseph 8)

oneday

livinglegend wrote:

Hi oneday

to undisclosed recipients so i didnt know which email address they used but i think it might have been from something I ordered.
How do these companies get your email addressess and should i just delete.

To 'undisclosed recipients' is usually spam, simply delete unread.

Hackers can steal online address books and if you buy anything from a dicey seller it can be passed on. Also spammers sweep websites for email addresses, so make sure you never post your email address on any websites. Hidden or otherwise.

If your address book is on your computer then it is reasonably safe if you have antivirus. If it is held online at one of the online email sites then your online address book should be deleted. This makes it difficult if you want to send an email from that account, but just use copy and paste from your computer address book. If it asks to save to online say 'No'. Naturally other people may not be so security minded with your email address.

Your email address is never safe whatever you do, someone will want to spam it. While people continue to reply to or order from spam sites then they will flourish. ISPs could shut them down but they would lose money so its not in their interests to act.

A friend of mine has a regular well distribute emailed newsletter from someone she knows, which always contains a virus. She won't inform them as she, "doesn't want to upset them". I did, and their reply was that they kept meaning to update their antivirus, but it was only updated 2 years ago so it wasn't them sending viruses out. No further comment needed!

Joseph 8)

Thank you for the info.

mellman01

Flippin heck just getting over me cold so I decide to get on my bike last night and cycle the 3 miles to my sisters house, now you couldn't miss me lights everywhere hig viz jacket helmet etc, well got cut up badly by two cars and 100 yards from my sisters I fell off, thought I was OK but today my neck is as stiff as hell, feels like I've been hit with a bat!, I never learn it was my love of runing that did me knees so now I'm trying to get meself wiped out for good!. save the flippin planet they say well it can stay warm for all I care! :oops: :roll:

tkachev

You dont have much luck do you Mellman? Hope you recover quickly.
Take care
Elizabeth

mellman01

I bounched very well just a bit stiff as the actress said to the bishop!, my reouble is I was going at it like some 20 year old BMX dude, my knees felt really good at the time so I was on a role well I thought I was. :shock:

debbierose

mellman01 wrote:

I bounched very well just a bit stiff as the actress said to the bishop!, my reouble is I was going at it like some 20 year old BMX dude, my knees felt really good at the time so I was on a role well I thought I was. :shock:

hope you get well quickly its very quiet on the war front.!!!!
hehehehehe I'm using the time to re arm. and pratice my aim.
and you know I'm already a red hot shot.

mellman01

Hi Deb's thanks for the get well soon and the pre invasion warning necks a bit sore but ego has gone west, as I went over I got me legs caught up in the frame god knows how but thak god for my head as I used it th break my fall, and thanks for the pre invasion warning I'm going to start filling sand bags and digging bunkers right now!

mike77

got a packard bell, it is working great the other one was getting slow , it hard to get used to it as most sites that I was on needed a password and I forgot them :x :x :x :x :x :x mike JR is coughing a lot and his head is sore going to doctors tomorrow see if they can give him anything .

Hazel is finding that the fibromyalgia is getting worse her arms are so weak.

painting nearely done ( boy am I glad )

MIKE R & Hazel & mike JR