email warning

they been coming into my hotmail account for about a week now- random girl names, followed by fw fw

i'd just ignored the first 5 and deleted, then i got tired, and tried to get rid. opened the email up, and it says you can unsubscribe from these emails and some crap about getting rid of bills :roll: by clicking on the link. oh dear. blue screen 'starting memory bulk dump'. I try the old ALT+F4, CTRL ALT DELETE, Windows start button etc none seemed to work. 2 seconds later, press reset switch on the comp. Nothing happens. I leave it 5 minutes and listen to a bit of Faithless, and switch on the pc. fingers crossed, everything seems to be ok atm.

so just a warning, cos that blue screen didn't look healthy!!

 

Get a mac, you won't experience these types of issues.

 

I think you might have been had, and garyi's "schadenfreude" might be premature

There are plenty of joke programs in e-mails like that which make it look like you're system is crashing but it's really just a simulation to scare you. It would be very difficult to force a real blue screen dump.

Michael.

 

They are getting very clever though. I got one of those Home-page hijackers at the weekend - no matter what I tried, I couldn't change my home page or explore my C drive. It's all sorted now, but was a real pain in the arse to get rid of.