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Yahoo Mail Was Hijacked - Will Deleting My Address Book Work?

• I find sent messages in my Yahoo account that I did not send. I deleted all the entries in my address book since I seldom use this account to send email. Will this prevent further use of this account to send messages, or can the hacker use spam lists, too and send them out under my name? If that is the case, how do I exit gracefully from Yahoo Mail? I've lost much interest in it because each time I open it a clever "messenger" window pops up and wants me to recognize some prostitute selling her body. I'm not interested, and it is a PITA to have to keep shutting down the "messenger service." I've heard that I will be much better served by GMail. Perhaps I will try that instead. baumgrenze

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  Deleting your account or Contacts List will NOT stop this spam - once the spammers have the address, they will continue to use it for a while. Spam sent to your Contacts will also stop in a while, but it is annoying. Records of Sent mail not by you mean your account has actually been hacked, and is being used as a 'spambot' - you risk losing your account or ISP privileges if you do not clean your computer of the infection! 1. Check that the alternate e-mail address is still yours (Change it first!), and then change both your password AND your secret questions and answers. Make them unique and strong ones! If you have a Yahoo! account, you can change your password at https://edit.yahoo.com/config/change_pw. If you can no longer access your account, you can get a new password at https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/. If you still can’t access your account after going through the “Forgot Your Password” process, you may contact the Customer Care team for assistance. Click Help, then Customer Care, then Live Chat - it make take a while, but a human answers! If you used this password for other accounts, change them too. Make the password longer than 8 characters, with mixed symbols. *** 2. Apologize, and notify all your contacts NOT to open short e-mails, especially those with no subject, and definitely not to click any links. Warn them to scan for malware too, just in case. Set up an alternate 'alias' account to use instead. This allows you to use a different address for sending, but still keep all saved mails and contacts and the first address active too for incoming mail. Your friends can trust this new address. (There is a choice of address in an arrow in the From: box.) http://edit.yahoo..com/config/list_alias (alternate address) 3. To be sure your computer is not infected, run both an anti-virus and spyware/malware scans, updated and separately - even more than one malware scan, or Trend Micro's Housecall for an online a-v scan. (in 'Safe Mode with Networking' is the only truly effective method - click F8 repeatedly when the screen first lights on boot-up, then arrow keys and Enter to navigate.) Re-boot into Safe Mode for each separate scan. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free http://www.superantispyware.com/ P.S. For Messenger, stay signed out of the Mail version, (in settings) and download the full program. Under the Messenger tab, set it to 'accept messages from Contacts only. No more porn solicitations ... Download and SAVE the program directly from the File Hippo web site. Download the most recent version of any Yahoo Instant Messenger (highest number, top of its list) You must be operating as an Administrator to install the program. If you use Internet Explorer 8 or 9 as your browser, Yahoo Messenger 10 or 11 will not work properly without updated Flash and Java programs also installed, and possibly the .NET framework update.