Tell a friend button produces hijacked link

Strange title and i am not sure this is the correct forum but can't find more suitable/obvious one.
When I click the 'Tell a friend' button to send a link to my photo albums, instead of the desired links and password details appearing in the message text there is an advert for a British Telecommunications Broadband facility known as BTFON!
Now I happen to have a BTFON account for use in UK and find it very convenient where standard wifi is not available or of poor quality so I know this to be a legitimate advert. However, I can't see why it should suddenly have started to appear in a link from iPhoto.
I have used the iPhoto facility to "tell a friend" in the past and not had this problem before. The last time i used the BTFON facility was in an airport hotel just before coming to the USA.
I do not have a problem when I open a new mail message directly in Mail. Has anyone else experienced anything similar?
(Oh yes I have tried to get an answer from British Telecoms - but I am not going to hold my breath for it!)
DAW

niels
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
The old method of emailing was fully restored with the 9.1.1 update. Just choose Mail or your preferred client in the preferences.
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