Niall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If your computer has been compromised, someone else has complete access to it. They have access to your email address book and any other files and can send email from your computer, using your details, just as if you sent it yourself. This is how a lot of viruses and spam is sent, not from the perpetrator's own computer but from a number of other people's computers they have hacked. The owner is probably not aware anything is wrong. They do this precisely so that the offending emails are indistinguishable from the computer owners genuine emails. I understand you use library computers; you are depending on the council IT dept.s competence in keeping them secure. My local council has difficulty emptying the bins competently, YMMV.
-- Niall I appreciate all the above Niall. But you know & I know that *I* really sent the xmas card, not expecting criticism from any quarter, &, as you can see from my last posting on the subject, when challenged, the critic backed down from demonstrating that it was possible to pretend to be someone else. Please consider this the last word on the subject, I'm sure all the people who *did* enjoy the card, sent in good faith, are probably tired of reading about it! Barry. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
