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I have a virus that sends emails to my contacts?

Email received which logs onto my address book and sends emails to contacts?

  • This is a chinese company who operates in Spain. Initially it removed my signature at the bottom of my email system and attached their own and sent emails to every contact on my yahoo and hotmail address book. This happened twice - each time I went into the website and blocked off their email address (they created a second email address) I looked through my emails today and both yahoo and hotmail have emails which have bounced back to me with the title "Whats up" and its exactly the same except this time, its another website and a different email addresss and its obviously gone to yahoo and hotmail contacts again. I had supposedly blocked the originals off but they seem to be clever each time and create a new website and email address - meanwhile I feel embarrassed that this is going on. Should I change my email provider - advice would be appreciated

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    Your contacts list has been stolen by a hacker and it is sending the trash to your friends.you should tell your friends not to open them as they could get spyware sent to them. You and your friends will need to do a spyware scan of your PC's and then change the passwords when it is completed.make a note of your new Password. How to stop it happening. Change your password. clear out your browser cache including history and all remembered passwords and form data. check your contact list for names/addresses that you don't know and delete them, Never leave your PC without signing out of the internet. Always mark junk mail as Spam. and you can also put them in the spam gaurd. From your mail page top right,click on Options then more options >spam >type the name into the box provided and click ADD then at the top of the page click on Save changes. Have a great day and a safe one. Jess :)

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Per Yahoo this is being caused by a virus. It spreads out through your email account and it sends spam emails to the contacts that are in your address book and to yourself if your address is in your contact list without your knowledge. There are many viruses in existence today (often called "worms"), that propagate when an email attachment containing the virus is sent to an email address found in an infected user's computer (e.g., address book, local files, etc.). To stop the sending out of spam please change your Yahoo! password. The users that have encountered this before stopped the sending out of spam after changing their Yahoo! password. You can use this link to change your password. http://edit.yahoo.com/config/change_pw you will be asked to enter your current password once and your new password twice. click "Save". You might want to run a virus scan on your computer and it sometimes helps to run a virus scan in the SAFE MODE. This can be accomplished by restarting your computer and slowly clicking on the F8 button on your keyboard while the computer is starting up You might also want to change your secret question/answer. To change or update your secret question and answer you can use the form at http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/acct/in%E2%80%A6 NOTE; It is helpful if you sign out of your email account before you shut you computer off AND during the day when you are going to be away for any length of time. This link will show you many ways to enhance your security. http://security.yahoo.com/ Also, Yahoo has advised when you receive an email that SEEMS to be from yourself it is possible for the sender to put your email address in the FROM section which will then show your email address in the in box prior to opening up the email....which, of course, you should NEVER open. One last note....enter CNET SECURITY CENTER in your web browser. This site has a ton of info ref viruses, worms, etc. This is an excerpt referencing phising for you info. These are emails that SEEM to be coming from the below mentioned sites, but are actually false emails. " The study found that 375 high-profile brand names were being used for the fraud, with eBay (23 percent) and Western Union (21 percent) together comprising 44 percent of all the malicious Web sites discovered. Rounding out the top 10 list of exploited brands were: Visa, United Services Automobile Association, HSBC, Amazon, Bank of America, PayPal, Internal Revenue Service, and Bendigo Bank (Australia). Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20016026-83.html?tag=nl.e757#ixzz0zRELUcka

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