JackieMc
Well-Known Member
Just wondering if this is happening to anyone else.
Over the last 3 weeks or so I have been receiving emails to my 'Liberty' email address (as opposed to my personal email address). Not just the odd one every now and again, but as many as 10 in one day and a day doesn't go by without me receiving at least 3 or 4. Now, luckily my web host provides virus protection and so removes the virus from the email before it's delivered to me, so I just end up getting the email with notification that a particular virus was attached but has been removed. Another little 'hurdle' I have for these pesky emails to get past is a programme called 'Mailwasher' which I would highly recommend to anyone (www.mailwasher.com). I can preview the emails BEFORE downloading them to my Outlook Express, and then delete, bounce, blacklist them so they can't get through again in future. Very handy little feature.
Anyway, a large percentage of these emails have been 'apparently' sent from 'nail' related people. Only today, amongst the other dross I was sent, I received 2 emails 'apparently' sent from 'Laystar' and another one from 'GigiRouse'. I can't remember the full address it gave for 'Laystar' but the other was '[email protected]'. Now I realise that these haven't been sent by the 'genuine' people (so Gigi & Laystar - I know it wasn't you! :o ), but I was just wondering how it was possible for the viruses to be sent to a person from addresses of people (or similar addresses) that one may know or know of - does anybody know? I don't have a clue how the whole virus thing works, ie, how they end up being sent to you, so I'm puzzled as to how they keep getting sent to my 'Liberty Nail Design' email addy and not my personal email address. I can't remember the last time I received a virus sent to my personal email addy.
Has anyone else been having this problem recently? Not just 'normal' viruses being sent from unknown email addresses, but viruses being sent from 'recognisable' email addresses (if that makes sense?).
Thanks
Jackie
www.LibertyNailDesign.com
Dublin
Over the last 3 weeks or so I have been receiving emails to my 'Liberty' email address (as opposed to my personal email address). Not just the odd one every now and again, but as many as 10 in one day and a day doesn't go by without me receiving at least 3 or 4. Now, luckily my web host provides virus protection and so removes the virus from the email before it's delivered to me, so I just end up getting the email with notification that a particular virus was attached but has been removed. Another little 'hurdle' I have for these pesky emails to get past is a programme called 'Mailwasher' which I would highly recommend to anyone (www.mailwasher.com). I can preview the emails BEFORE downloading them to my Outlook Express, and then delete, bounce, blacklist them so they can't get through again in future. Very handy little feature.
Anyway, a large percentage of these emails have been 'apparently' sent from 'nail' related people. Only today, amongst the other dross I was sent, I received 2 emails 'apparently' sent from 'Laystar' and another one from 'GigiRouse'. I can't remember the full address it gave for 'Laystar' but the other was '[email protected]'. Now I realise that these haven't been sent by the 'genuine' people (so Gigi & Laystar - I know it wasn't you! :o ), but I was just wondering how it was possible for the viruses to be sent to a person from addresses of people (or similar addresses) that one may know or know of - does anybody know? I don't have a clue how the whole virus thing works, ie, how they end up being sent to you, so I'm puzzled as to how they keep getting sent to my 'Liberty Nail Design' email addy and not my personal email address. I can't remember the last time I received a virus sent to my personal email addy.
Has anyone else been having this problem recently? Not just 'normal' viruses being sent from unknown email addresses, but viruses being sent from 'recognisable' email addresses (if that makes sense?).
Thanks
Jackie
www.LibertyNailDesign.com
Dublin