this is totally boring and completely off-topic, but i don't want anyone else to have this headache...

i just spent the last hour or so trying to get rid of an annoying popup message trying to get me to buy scam anti-virus protection.  i suspect it came from an email i just received from someone i had previously received an inquiry from that happened to go to a few other area photographers, too.  i don't want to reopen the email for fear of picking up the nasty virus again, so hopefully you guys know who you are and hopefully you use macs and aren't affected by this.  unfortunately i don't remember who else received it.

so, if this looks familiar...

click here for directions on how to remove it.  you will have to reboot in safe mode and then go to your control panel/folder options and show hidden folders.  without doing that i wasn't able to delete the .exe file mentioned in the forum.