AN OFF NOTE TO ANY ONE COMPUTER KNOWLEDGEABLE. (please email me at [log in to unmask] w/ responses) I received a terrifying email from my ex tonight (with a zip file attachment titled ferrets- not able to discern what the heck it is though, appears unopenable) What's scarring me (along with the fact that this guy is a total jerk who stole about $10,000 dollars from me causing me to foreclose on my house and file bankruptcy- It's been a tough year...) ANYWAY there is no way that he could know anything about my interest in ferrets, (The one I used to have I couldn't talk about without crying and I know I never mentioned her or anything about ferrets to him and the one I have now has only been with me a few months) ~unless he was able to access my computer somehow. Is it possible??? It's just creepy. He's a very intelligent person and does all sorts of stuff with computers (most of it stuff I never understood) but I took every step imaginable to distance myself from this person with the exception of changing my name and now there's this weird email. I don't know who else to ask and there are so many people on FML that I thought surely someone must know something about computers. I'm going to be completely on edge and terrified until someone out there eases my fears (sorry about being so off topic Bill!) [Moderator's note: Please consider that the e-mail might not really have originated from your ex. What you are describing perfectly fits the pattern of a computer virus that's been making the rounds lately... and in that case, your ex did NOT send it since it fakes the "From:". BIG] [Posted in FML issue 3860]