Tankshill in London e-mail

[TanksHill]

ok so heres the jist. I am on a new computer and have changed my password. My brother the computer guru explained to me that the hacker. Nice guy that he was accessed my yahoo mail and sent the e mail asking for money. There is no virus. I just lost all my contacts in my Face Book and yahoo account. will be most likely changing my e mail and wiping my computer hard drive.

Grrrrrr I feel so violatred. My dh is probably going to kill me.

 

[FarmerDenise]

For those of you who haven't opened it yet. It just said "Hi" in the subject line.
I opened it, coz I thought it was a legit email from Gina :/
I knew she had done a little trip, but London, as far as I knew, was not on her itinerary.

mp, since I opened it, will this mailwasher remove anything they may have downloaded?

 

[reinbeau]

If I would have known G was going to London, I would have hooked her up with the inlaws so she could crash at their flat.

I didn't get one, and whoever gets one should delete it. Often these spam emails contains auto generators that steal your address book and then start auto emails. I use a free program called mail washer.

http://www.mailwasher.net/

Its a program that down loads/auto deletes tons of spam mail without down loading into your inbox first. I have been using the program for years without any major problems.

My ISP shut me down years ago because my account was emailing 5,000 emails a day. I called nerd herd so they could help me and haven't had the same problem since.

I've been using Mailwasher Pro for years - all of my e-mail is checked on the server before it is downloaded to my computer. It has saved me tons of trouble. The free version is excellent, but I wanted the pro features - it's one program I don't mind paying for.

Denise, no, once you've downloaded your e-mail to your pc, your antivirus software should take care of any nasties - although I don't think there are any, based on what Gina said and my own experience.