Someone is sending emails to my address book contacts?

Help!! someone or something has gotten into my address book and is sending all of my contacts emails that I?

• didn't compose & God knows what's in them. They are not showing up in my outbox. I only know of them when i get failure notices from old addresses. Someone please help!

• Answer:

  It could be that you have a virus. They are set up to use contact lists to send spam to all on your contacts list. Run a virus scan. If your account has been hacked, Yahoo! has a neat thing where you can check to see if any unauthorized parties have logged into your account (I have tried this and it works): 1. In your mail, click "Options" 2. Then "Mail Options" from that list 3. From the list on the left, choose "Account Information" (you will be asked for your password) 4. Then under the "Sign-In and Security" section, click "View your recent login activity". Once you do that, a list will pop up showing all recent login in activity. You will immediately see anything out of the ordinary. If you do see something, cancelling the account could be your best option:. Before cancelling the account, first create VERY strong password consisting of letters, numbers, symbols, capital letters, etc. Then continue to monitor log-in activity as described above. If you continue to see unauthorized log-in activity, consider creating a new account. Or even consider not using Yahoo! mail for you personal mail. I would recommend Gmail. More on Malware from Yahoo: http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?y=PROD_MSNG&page=content&id=SLN2159&actp=lorax&locale=en_US If you do find you have a virus and end up having to create a new email account, don't use the import/export feature to get addresses from your old account to the new one. There is an option to print all contact information. Do that and re-enter all the addresses you want to keep manually.