Yahoo Address Book- virus?

backhertz · Post by **backhertz** » Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:51 pm

I opened a message from another forum member earlier. I noticed a short time later, bogus messages were sent to everyone in my Yahoo address book.

I've changed my Yahoo password & hope none of you receive any bogus messages from me.

If you know of any action(s) I can do, thanks in advance.

Tony

wa2crk · Post by **wa2crk** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:05 am

Tony;
I was getting those type of messages from my son. They got the name spelled correctly and everything but the return E-Mail was wrong. I think that Yahoo has a handle on it because it has stopped at least for now. You may try telling Yahoo.
Also I always read the return address before opening any mail.
Good luck.
Bill V

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:13 am

Admin has gotten a handle on this too. Notice that the perpetrator (liulugoommohome) is gone.

camerio · Post by **camerio** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:34 am

I got the same problem on my Hotmail account, somebody was sending messages to all my contacts, the key is that there is no subject.
As I was saying to every contacts, I always put a subject and I do not send messages just for fun stuff that I picked up on internet ...
I changed my password on the recommendation of Hotmail administrator and it stop.
We should be changing our password regularly, it seems to be recommended by many sites.
Of course the problem, for me anyway, is keeping track of all the different passwords, pin numbers as well.
I am getting old, I guess ....
Happy Holidays everyone !

backhertz · Post by **backhertz** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:45 pm

There has been one good result as a result of my address book being hacked- I'm getting emails from some people I haven't heard from in years. lol

joedw00 · Post by **joedw00** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:41 pm

I had the same problem. Changed my password and it stopped. Then my wife got it and had to change her password.