caution---- check your yahoo contacts !!!!

Hello Friends,

Please check your yahoo contacts and sent mail. I received mail from about 40 friends saying I sent a link to some Canadian Rx stuff.
I did not send any such thing. When I looked at the paths of the emails from friends, it shows many other contacts have also been added to the send list.


I deleted all contacts from all 3 of my yahoo accts. I hope you do the same for now.

1st export them then delete. Add them back in a few days. I'm going to try to get in touch with yahoo somehow


holding my breath



Carmine

Thanks for informing everyone about your problem, it will help many. I hope that others have some advice that can help, in addition to what I gave you already.

Good thing I use Gmail.

I'm having the exact same problem, but with Hotmail (MSN) rather than Yahoo Mail. My account was apparently hijacked at some point, so it's sending out those commercial messages also. VERY annoying!!! So I've just tried your method Carmine, and deleted all my contacts, to see if it will work in Hotmail as well. I sure hope so because I don't want to have to cancel my Hotmail account if I don't have to. I guess all I can do is wait and see. It's too bad we can't get ourselves deleted from other peoples' contact lists. . .

pretty scarry, many of my contacts (626) have phone#,addresses,fax,job positions,birthday,etc

The use of the internet is great, but with everything else in the world, today, it is required that we always remain alert.

that's why, going forward, only nicknames and email address ONLY

niemiro said:

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-news/...ty-updates-protect-you-account-hijackers.html

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as always !!!!!! thank you !!!

niemiro said:

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-news/...ty-updates-protect-you-account-hijackers.html

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There's some excellent advice here, so thanks Richard! I am still waiting to see if Carmine's suggestion of deleting my Contact List will solve my hijacked email site problem -- and so far I can report that my email hasn't sent out any bogus emails since then, but I've received a few from a couple of people who were on my now-deleted Contacts List. Meanwhile, getting back to the suggestions in this posting, I have also now added a cell phone number to my profile, to be used by Microsoft to notify me if my account is hijacked, and can also be used as an alternate password in case I'm locked out (by hijackers or otherwise). Microsoft also suggests we add an alternate email for the same purpose, but I don't want to take a chance that a hijacker could access that information also. I've also started "logging off" or "signing out" every time I exit my email. It's kind of a pain, but I think it may reduce a 3rd party's access to it. And it just occurred to me today, that frequent deleting of all cookies in my system might help as well. What do you think?