We know that 98% of emails are spam.  A couple of months back some of our machines got a virus which meant that when we did a google search instead of getting the full range of google listings we just got highly selected ones - mostly those with malware on them.    

Now it seems spammers are using emails that include a link that appears to point to a Google page, but instead directs users to a site that then tries to install malware on their computer.   The URL begins with [1] www.google.com - so we tend not to look.  Apparently the same thing happens with MSN and Yahoo sites.  The only way to check seems to be to point the mouse at the URL and look at the long link behind it, and then avoid it.

But of course most of us don’t even check who we are sending our emails to - we just click reply, press the button…

In short, we’ve been trapped. 

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