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What is wrong with my e-mail account?

My yahoo email account has sent bogus emails to people on my contact list, and I have no virus, what is wrong?

  • Mcafee virus protection says I do not have a virus on my computer. How can I figure out what is wrong and then fix the problem?

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    In Yahoo Classic: Your address book can be hijacked if you or your friends expose all of the email addresses in a Forwarded message. Always use the bcc field to hide the names you are Forwarding to. HACKING PREVENTION: Someone has hacked your account and is still sending Spam to those in your address book. Each one will have a person's name in the subject line. When opened, there is a link to some advertising sight. If you click on the link, you get Mal-ware, Spyware or a Virus. 1: Do a spyware scan on your computer to find the malware which is sending those messages and remove it. 2: After your hard drive is cleaned, change your password, not before! 3. Clean your cache, delete history of visited websites and "Sign Out" of your account completely before leaving the computer. Click the "Sign Out" button. 4. If you leave it open, anyone can open and read your email. They can also go to the history function, or just hit the back button and get into your account. Never open emails from someone you do not know. That's how the hackers get your account info. Don't forget your new password though. You will need it the next time you sign into your Yahoo account.

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Your account got compromised. First change your password. Account help.http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/acct/in%E2%80%A6 for just about anything to do with your account. Then run anti Virus and Anti Spyware. Should be fine then.

smeagin

Your contacts list has been compromised.The best thing to do is, Tell your friends not to click on any links in those email,as they will have virus/or worms attached You and your friends will need to do a full spyware scan. and once that's done Change your password,and that should stop it. Make a note of your new Password. Good luck Jess :)

J R ;)

Perhaps somebody has got hold of your email and password via a tracking cookie and is now spamming loads of people. Tell yahoo or the only other thing you can do is close down your account, and start a new one or try changing your password? Speak to a yahoo helper and they can probably fix it for you :)

Frannn93

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