Patrick: I happen to be one of those people. As you can attest I changed ISP's about seven months ago. In the last couple of months a couple of people from Cloudy Nights sent me Private Messages that they had received a message from my MSN account that had "no subject" and that they led do Prescription sales places in Canada etc. Since then I have tried to contact MSN but since there is no such entity as MSN and no phone numbers to call etc. I have been unable to do anything about my old e-mail address being used in such a manner. I no longer have access to that account and have no way of seeing that it stops. I have received the same type of e-mail from several club members in the last 60 days or so. It did not start this morning. You just got one this morning. I have read that it is a global problem and never to open an e-mail that has "no subject" the subject line. The email I received from a friend had a suspicious subject and I did not open it. I'd love to know how to stop this but I sure don't know how. Anyone know how? My apologies to all but it seems to be out of my control. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@ wirelessbeehive .com> To: " utah astronomy utah astronomy listserve " < utah -astronomy@mailman. xmission .com> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 4:27:55 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Computer virus question Hi list people, Early this morning some ne'er-do-well hacked into one of our list member's email address book and used the member's computer to broadcast a message that went to a bunch of people and to the UA list. It appears the message contained a link to a site in Germany (as evidenced by the ". de " in the URL). I've no idea where that site went to as I did not click on it. Fortunately since the message bore no subject and was addressed to so many addresses the list software flagged the post as suspicious so it never got posted to the list itself. I alerted the list member to the situation and he responded asking what he should do now. Since this has now happened to at least two folks on UA I thought I'd post about the situation here and ask those more computer-literate than I: 1) How does one keep one's address book from being hacked in the first place? and 2) What should one do after such a hack occurs? Also 3) On Macs one can safely see what's in an email without actually opening it by making a text-only copy (Apple key-Shift-S). How does one do the same thing with a Windows machine? Ideas? Thanks, patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman. xmission .com http ://mailman. xmission .com/cgi-bin/mailman/ listinfo / utah -astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http :// www . slas .us/gallery2/main. php Visit the Wiki : http :// www . utahastronomy .com