Answers:
a) pictures never came up. I was redirected to another site. As soon as this happened I disconnected.
b) Unrelated to OS. I know an Appple user who has had same thing happen. This was not an attempt to invade my PC, as I thought I'd made clear. It was masquarading as an e-mail from someone I know in order to get me to click on to a distant site. VERY VERY OBVIOUS and something I warn everyone else about. Early Saturday morning and expecting a message, I was vulnerable. Should have known better.
c) Identifying files as genuine will be done by preceeding SMS code. I already do this for sensitive files. I have 500 SMS a month free so it costs nothing.
14:35 - Just heard from a friend running 8 that he also has had an e-mail from a biz acquaintance using hotmail, "click here to look at working docs.." etc., which weren't.
Last edited by OFSO; 3rd Aug 2014 at 12:36.