Were the addresses from your Yahoo address book? If so, that's
definitely the attack point. You should be OK now, if you've picked a
strong password.
I've had this with a couple of friends who use Yahoo. They had simple
passwords, so it looks like the bad guys are brute force attacking the
I seem to have what on Windows I'd describe as a virus - my email has
sent two messages, with different subjects and contents, to some (but
not all) my contacts. All are in my Personal address book, I have one
other address book which hasn't been used.
The headers from one:
Return-path:
2009/11/28 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk:
Received: from [24.159.36.27] by web26305.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP;
That's probably the key; change your Yahoo! login password. There's
likely nothing wrong with your machine.
Jonathon
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On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 19:13 +, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
That's probably the key; change your Yahoo! login password. There's
likely nothing wrong with your machine.
I've done that, thanks for the advice. Yahoo has been a real pain
recently, that's the third problem I've had with them.
2009/11/28 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk:
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 19:13 +, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
That's probably the key; change your Yahoo! login password. There's
likely nothing wrong with your machine.
I've done that, thanks for the advice. Yahoo has been a real pain
recently,
