Originally Posted by
alwayslearning
My first concern is your security on the Internet. How did they get your email address? Why did you open mail from someone you do not know? I do not open mail from senders I do not recognize. I move it to SPAM. It looks like you were lucky this time, but please be more cautious in the future. There are many people on this Board who have had huge problems because of viruses and malware received from innocent looking email.
This was true some years ago. If you have to worry about email virus and malware you need to update or get rid of the old internet carrier email program. The new email programs like Gmail , you don't get malware or viruses. I rarely get spam and I sign up for everything on facebook and other sites. I like free stuff and signing up for it is the only way to get a lot of it. (just got 6 spools of Aurifil I won on Facebook) Every once and awhile I'll get a email that gmail will alert me that it has been checked and cleaned and I can open it if I want. And online email won't clog up your computer it's stored online.
Forgot to say I have a public Facebook page just for quilting. All the shops, manufactures, blogs, designer posts show up on it. My family facebook page is set to custom so no one but who is on my family list can see it.