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Not sure this is the best place for this, but feel I should warn everyone - I received an email the other day to my hotmail account, purportedly from myself and using the picture on my blog page and Facebook page to make it look authentic. There was an attached document, which I was invited to download - even though I didn't download it, clicking on the email itself caused my anti-virus (AVAST, if it helps) to go berserk. <div>
</div><div>So - if you receive a hotmail email purportedly from me, or from yourself (I know that sounds odd, but curiosity being what it is you MIGHT click on it) or from another Forum member, or use Outlook (which I note is down at the moment) and receive an email from the usual suspects at gmail, or yahoo, don't even open the email, just delete it. And certainly don't download the "document" if you weren't expecting one - you're probably all well able to work this stuff out for yourself, but we can all lose concentration & click that which we shouldn't...</div><div>
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