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Since registration, and this being the ONLY place on the internet where my correct email address has been submitted, I have been receiving regular email viruses and junk mail. Never, not even once, received viruses or junk mail before.

Just wondered if this has been happening to anyone else, or if Fodors should check their security.

Thanks.

I have not experienced any differences with Fodor's since registration. AOL is another story.

I've been experiencing a lot more viruses in my regular email address, but not with the Yahoo address that I used to register with Fodors. Maybe it's just an overall virus problem with everyone lately.

I've never even had any spam at that Yahoo address since registration.

For the first time ever, we received a notice from Norton that we had a Virus, it was quarantined and we think it was Bloodhound, which I was unaware of being a virus:(
It was deleted and Dell thinks we are ok..we will know if we stay well for a week or so, otherwise, I hope it is not fatal.

Is it true that computer viruses are becoming resistant to vaccines? Our IT servicer refuses to prescribe anything. They insist we save it for something serious.

How do we know that the virus-protection companies are not creating some of these email viruses themselves?

They could be sending them to their own customers in order to convince them to upgrade their virus protection software at a considerable fee, of course.

Maybe Yahoo just has killer spam protection these days. The only spam I get is spam I signed up for.

No changes for me since registration.

But then again, I don't really worry about viruses. 99.9% of them are written for windoze machines, and only .01% for Macs.

I registered in the beginning, and have not gotten any spam or viruses. $)

I have my Yahoo address listed for Fodors and haven't gotten any more spam than usual.

Oh come on here, you all have to stop being so naive!? We ALL know where the spam originates, and it is NOT from Fodors. It's from those other sites you register at, you know what I am talking about, the ones you don't tell your sig other about. And when the virus mail comes then well it's all "oh that darned Fodors" and all to deflect the true cause. Nice try.

As they say, when you lie down with dogs you wake up with fleas.

Now, now, we're not ALL registering with those other nasty websites, are we? Fodor's probably shares their e-mail lists with other travel-related sites, who then share it with consumer-oriented sites, who then spam us endlessly. And with all those PCs with Outlook mail lists, chances are one dumb yutz will accidentally download and execute a virus and send it to all of the people on that list. Simple law of probability and idiots....

50-75% of my spam is coming from people who have grabbed Prodigy membership lists, then shotgunned spam to me and any number of people whose names fall immediately around mine in the alphabet...all with prodigy.net addresses. If it were Fodors, more of us would be getting them. Who is your ISP Syv?

MSN account registered with Fodors and have never received one email. Blenroth is correct about the other websites registered with.

I have Hotmail filter, so only e-mail from my address book goes to my in-box. Everything else goes to "junk mail". Why do you open an e-mail if you don't know who sent it? You can't get a virus if you don't read an e-mail.

I did not see any (significant) increase in spam since registering with Fodor's.

I'll try to cover everyone's suggestions/questions:

Our computer is at work. My account is only a subfolder of the inbox - therefore, previously, any spam/infected emails would only come to our boss' general work-related account. Understandable since spam/hackers find this on our website.

I have not/do not register/buy/sell/ anything on the internet. Our ISP is local (Apexia).

My computer doesn't actually "get" the virus. Our Norton scanner notifies us of the infected incoming email and we quarantine/delete/repair, etc.

Yes - we do know not to "open" it. Thanks, though.

I know there is an awful lot of spam increase out there. It just seems odd that they have now somehow found MY email account which is not on a website or anything.

Oh well... Not travel related, so this post can die down now.

Syv, did you register yourself using your business account or using work PC to get on-line? Now I worry as I used Hotmail for registration but log on from work only.

Given the way modern computer viruses actually work, it's more likely that someone you know (who has your email somewhere on their computer) was the one who sent you a virus. The viruses are engineered to spoof the sender so it's confusing how it got to you. Bloodhound is not the name of a virus, but the engine technology in Norton AntiVirus that detected your infected file.