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Too bad the Mac users won't know how to do the repairs when the problems do hit them...Maybe I shouldn't say that; there's a lot of PC users that don't know how to handle problems on their PC's either.

You can't just look at the email and tell if it has been forwarded or not. When I forward emails, I remove all information from other email users that may be showing and I blind copy to everyone unless it's just one person I'm forwarding to. Although, you can track the routing with in the properties to see where the email originated. I'd investigate a little further before writing off a friendship.

WildBill wrote:Thanks for the tips. I downloaded malwarebytes and it found 16 infected files. I don't know if they really are, but I deleted them.

If it found 16 problems, believe me, you had 16 problems that could have lead to bigger problems for you and possibly others too. Good choice to delete or quarantine them. Good luck.

I’m not going to get into the long instructions of how to get rid of your viruses/malware, but I have found a number of freeware that works great for your protection. I use McAfee anti virus because Comcast offers it free to its users. The best free anti virus I believe to be is AVG. I’ve seen the free version catch things that have gotten through Norton/Symantec’s. A free software bundle that works great for keeping your machine in top shape is: Ccleaner. You can download it from http://www.ccleaner.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. It also cleans up your registry. The free malware program mentioned in this thread is really great. I’ve stepped other through the not so friendly install and had them run it after they have run everything they have on their machine and it would always catch something that the others missed. The Mac…lol, the writers of bad script aren’t doing it for the Mac because it’s a big waste of their time. Not too many software packages for the Mac like there are for the PC. It won’t be long and you’ll be seeing the problems with the Mac too and you’ll find the problem much larger because most Mac users are totally oblivious to computer issues. Here’s some links for the freeware:
http://www.ccleaner.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.avg-download-free.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Make sure you have only one instance of anti virus running on your machine. Running more than one may cause conflicts with each other and really screws your machine up.