I wake up this morning to 15 emails in my Yahoo! in box. I haven't had 15 emails in my inbox since the deep, deep days of the Fanged Four Fic.

None of the emails I got today is by anyone I want to read, with the exception of an almost hidden LJ response from scrollgirl. None of the emails, save Scroll's, is by anyone I know. And they are all empty, some with attachments.

This happens from time to time, there's some weird software bug/virus thingee that sends you an empty email from someone with some funky meaningless subject line, and somehow gets into your address book and spawns a series of empty emails to people on your list (apologies if you get one), then gets into your correspondant's addresss books and spawns more empty emails.

Usually, I get one every few weeks. Today, it's 30+.

Grr. Argh.

Update: Computer Guy at work has sent out an email instructing us all in the use of email filters. I am now dilegently applying his instructions to my Yahoo! account. Take that, "Wicked screensaver" and "My details"!!

Update to my update: Be careful about applying a "send to trash" filter to some spam. If you set up a filter to trash any email with a subject line that contains the words "Thank you" (in an attempt to hose the spam "Re: Thank you") it will trash any email you get after that with the words "Thank you" in it. Not that I get tons of emails with that subject line, but y'know, I do on occassion, get a fan letter or two.



Oh, and today is the last day in amazon.co.uk's dispatching window for my Harry Potter book set. So far, no dispatching....