Thank you so much, Sam. That's really helpful. I have now checked the options section of the yahoo webmail and there aren't any forwarders set up there. Whew!
So it looks as if I may now be OK (touch wood!). Thanks everyone! Gilly On 9 Apr 2013, at 18:33, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > You just need to change your yahoo password and check there are no forwarders > set up in the mail options section of the yahoo webmail. > > Sometimes the hacker will set up a forwarder to send any password resets from > other websites to a similarly spelt yahoo account, then they can retain > access to your accounts. > > This happens frequently to yahoo accounts, I see around 1 a week from my > clients > > Regards > > Sam > > -- > MacAmbulance > Sam Mullen > 07747778022 > [email protected] > > On 9 Apr 2013, at 18:25, Gillian Snoxall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Smuggers, >> >> If any of you receives an email purporting to come from me – with no >> Subject, and containing only a one line internet link – please delete it >> immediately (without opening the link). >> >> Can anyone (Sam?) please advise me what I should do now to clean up my act. >> I have already changed my Mail password to a more difficult one. Is there >> anything else I should do? >> >> All advice gratefully received. >> >> Gilly >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
