I think for this one you need a mask to prevent infection starting.
Thank you! Can you send the card to corona@fancybear.ru? 
Funnily enough, this morning our IT security people just sent out a halloween e-card as part of the penetration and testing program to warn staff about the dangers of this kind of email. I know it was from them because thereās a special button in our Outlook for reporting potential phishing emails, and identifying an internal email generates a pop-up that confirms the source. And it was a genuine e-card too.
As much as we like to joke about these things, I would treat them very seriously - they present a genuine danger, and are an ideal tool in the hands of a hacker to gain control of your computer and from there your bank accounts etc.
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We used them for years. It cost about Ā£10 a year to send as many cards as you liked.
We had a small hotel, after handwriting up to 200 cards and paying postage - ecards were a godsent.
Price went up as the time passed, but it was A LOT cheaper to stay in touch and send greetings. It also offered a calender version to remind you of birthdays, anniversaries and the like.
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Done that and got a reply. I presume itās OK to send you details of my passport and bank accounts?
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Battina
I have used them since i cannot remember, over the years the music has got better as have the cards, so !
You are absolutely right in what you say, as cards in France are ā¬3 plus, plus postageā¬1 for me its a no brainier, as you say with there reminder system. no worries at missing little Johnās birthday
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I think that times change and, sadly, what was once absolutely fine from a safety POV is no longer.
Iām sure most would be happy to receive a personal email from a friend to wish them happy birthday or Christmas much more than something commercial, and there are plenty of calendar apps that can provide reminders of significant dates. And if you were running a business, when mass-mailing is necessary it looks far more professional to send an email from your own address than to use this kind of service.
No need, they have them already. 
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Well I have always treated them as a minor irritant and replied by separate email each time, but I had no idea 'till now that they could even be harmful to my computer.
I still donāt know why people do use them rather than a simple personal message (email, not postal) but in the light of what has been said I now have the problem of how to break it to the only 2 people (both female) who send me these things. I am inclined to be polite and leave things as they are, perhaps by not opening them and sending an email immediately with a well wishing and updating message and leave it at that. 
You could create a rule to send an auto-reply saying āyour message could not be delivered as it was identified as possibly containing a virus.ā That should shake them up a bit 
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Oh come on Brian, there you go, assuming that I would have the foggiest idea of how to do such a thing.
My dear old long departed Mum had a saying āOh Brian, you know everythingā whenever someone came up with something vaguely brainy to her which she did not understand.
We have long wondered where she picked up such a thing.
Funnily enough, my mother used to say the same thing. She was also completely wrong 
The difference between an e-card and an email is not in the message - that can be the same in both - but in the method of delivery. Itās bit like the difference between sending someone a thoughtfully chosen card through the post and putting the message on a post-it note in an envelope 
Angela, first please understand that Iām not trying to take a personal shot at you in any way. I very much respect your contribution to SF and the person you come over as.
To me, the difference is between receiving a letter from a friend or receiving something which may be a card or it may be an incendiary device that tries to burn down my house. You obviously have particular friends with whom you regularly exchange messages in this format, who would hopefully recognise if such a message did not come from one of that group and would be careful not open it first.
Thatās really why some of us are rather negative about the e-cards thing.
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since weāve been chuckling over this subject todayā¦ I have received a card from a pal on the other side of the commune. she didnāt know I was unwell until last weekendā¦ and she wants to cheer me up
Itās Halloween House and Iāve watched it twiceā¦ itās funā¦ and she has made me laughā¦
itās only her and my sister in lawā¦ who send me these thingsā¦ it gives them pleasureā¦ so fair enough.
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It was not just a mass mailing, we did have the option to include a personalised message, which we did with guests who were repeat customers.
There is an option for recipients to decline the card, these would be taken off the list automatically.
Had a lot of positive reactions, and some declined every year.
But - as you said. Times have changed, internet viruses spread and we have sold the business, upped sticks and are now in France.
Our post office was very surprised when I showed up with our cards to be sent to all corners of the globe. Imagine my surprise when I saw the final billā¦ will be going back to the tissue paper of old airmail days, no more fancy cards!
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Aaaagh, itās that time again, Christmas, but more than that itās ecard time again.
I hate them. They arrive from the same people every year, the people that you normally never have any contact with, which only accentuates most of what is wrong with them. I do watch them, some can be quite jolly, but it is the duty and brainwork that I must devote to reply to them.
I start to write a short note, Happy Christmas and New Year. Too short, canāt leave it like that. Just a brief update then, brief? How can it be brief? Their knowledge of my life stopped 360 odd days ago. Just the important bits then, but everything was important, I am a very busy chap.
OK, make a start, if it gets too long I can always precis, cut here and there, hmm.
Most important and life changing first, Heart Attack, capital letters and all. That leads onto the effective Bobby Sands 6 months, getting thinner and thinner, and then the trembles and then, and thenā¦STOP!!!
I did manage the one yesterday, finally, and after much grief, pressed send, and off it went. At least that is what I thought. An immediate message from the online postman, or whatever he is called. No such address, couldnāt be delivered. But it is letter for letter number for number not only the one I have always had but also the one clearly listed in the run up to the music. Then I had a thought, they had addressed it to me alright, but to the email address I no longer use because it was hacked a couple of years ago and so I invented a new one.
So I re-sent the masterpiece from the newer address and sat back preening my commonsenciveness. It too bounced back. This is ridiculous, all that time spent on composing, is it to be wasted, and thus my dear friends seriously affronted at my lack of repost?
One last try, back to the ecard and read and follow all the steps especially the ones which say āyou can reply directly from the card if you wantā. In spite of the destination address still being the same, this time there was no bounce, fingers crossed it is not just the postman giving up on me and letting it through even though he knows it wonāt get anywhere.
So this morning, Caught up on all messages on here, on the driversā forum and independant emails and sitting back for a relaxing moment before getting on with the heavy lifting of the day. (I am, after each dog walk, loading a wheelbarrow with gravel and pushing it up, huffing and puffing (I live on a hill) halfway to the gate at the farside of the new forest where I will spread it to gradually turn a muddy surface into a gravelly one on the way back down from the next walk)
Then ādingā, another email, and another bloody ecard. grrrrrrrrrrrr. 
I feel so much better now, trouble shared etc., am I alone in all this? 
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Iāve found only doing any sort of Xmas card exchange for very close family works wonders.
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They can be a bit irritating and also, you canāt put an e-card on the mantelpiece.
With Jacquie Lawson you can usually skip to the end of the video and just read the message. Then it offers you the chance to send a sort of postcard back via the site. The postcard doesnāt take a lot of characters so you canāt say all that much. But whoever sent the card canāt blame you for a short message because the site decides.
Yes, over many years I managed to whittle regular incoming cards to just 2. They hang, all year round, on a piece of string inside the front door, so I know exactly who I have to send cards to. 
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I always send their Advent Calendar to my grandsons, who love doing the games.
It is useful for sending invitations too.