Oops, I meant gmail, not yahoo mail. (My message to you was a slightly modified version of a message that I sent to someone else, who had the same problem, but with a yahoo mail account instead of a gmail account, and I missed a couple of the references to yahoo). *So change your gmail account password, ASAP!*
Note that this problem seems to happen with all the major webmail services: yahoo, gmail, aol, and hotmail. Dave On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:59 PM, David Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Congratulations! I can help you!... >> http://chpci.com/links.php?siSID=007<http://www.google.com/search?q=phishing> >> > > > Dear Rob, > > Your Gmail account has been hijacked!! The bad guys have your gmail > account password, and are spamming the addresses in your gmail address book: > your friends, the pygame list, etc. > > They might have gotten your password when you logged into your Gmail > account from a computer with a "trojan" infection. So I recommend that you > immediately log into your gmail account from a trusted computer (a computer > that you are confident has no trojan infection), and *change your yahoo > account password.* > > Then, I recommend that you scan whatever computer(s) you use for yahoo mail > with some good anti-malware tools, including, at least: > > - TDSSkiller<http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.exe> > (this > is quick) > - MalwareBytes <http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php> > - ESET online <http://www.eset.com/online-scanner> scanner > > > I have links to good anti-malware tools on my web site: > http://www.geeksalive.com/links.html > (Be sure to read the paragraph at the top.) > > Dave > -- “If anyone thinks the words ‘government’ and ‘efficiency’ belong in the same sentence, we have counseling available.” - Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-MA)
