I received a virus alert last night, or early this morning (not sure exactly when as I was exhausted). Anyway, without thinking I emailed the thing onto a bunch of people from my contact list includingmost people that have contacted me through the giveaway project using that particular Email. I was very tired at the time so didn't think to use the facility to hide everyones Emails from each other. (It had been turned off). For this I apologise. Also it seems that the Email was a possible scam, though it did say that the virus had been confirmed by a specific security manager. I always scan my emails for Malware, and it showed no problems with the Email, so you shouldn't worry about that, though it was pointed out to me that a spammer culd now have all of our emails, though I don't understand how they could get the mail if I wasn't directly sending a mail out to them (as already mentioed I only used my trusted contacts). I didn't think anything of it until receiving two Emails from fellow Giveaway community members who were not happy with what I'd done. I've tried to send out individual Emails apologising to everyone just in case I've caused any upsets at exposing your Emails to others. all I can say apart from a very big sorry is that all the links I used are from what I consider trusted people.
If you have not yet opened the Email from me Whiterabbit-moonrising with a virus warning in the title, just as a precaution please delete it. Thank you.
I will not be sending out Emails en mass again. Not that I usually do. I just felt I should warn you all about the possible threat as the way it was described it seemed pretty serious. Though I personally would be wary of such an Email as I've had loads recently about my banks and moreso about my PayPAL account but was suspicious so sent them unopened to their fraud address and was told that all of them were fraudulent.
We must be very vigilant about Emails. I do hope my oversight as not put anyone off contacting me on my hotmail accounts. I really enjoy receiving Emails from you all, especially as I'm virtually house bound, so you are my only contacts.
Again I'm sorry if I've caused any upsets; and if you didn't receive an apology, it was only because I wasn't systematic when writing the individual Emails to everyone and got a little lost as to who I'd sent mails out to.
yours sincerely
WhiteRabbit aka Stephen