Hi Bill.... No real need to abandon Yahoo. As you said, delete the address or contacts book in Yahoo and then use a resident email app and store the contacts in your own computer. I got hacked awhile back but they did not hack this computer because of the ESET antivirus I have.....they hacked the whole account within the Yahoo servers and added a second email address then sent out thousands of spam email spoofing my email address. When I found out about it I logged into my Yahoo account, changed the password first and then deleted the unwanted email address....easy.
Dave Harmon K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net Sperry, Ok. -----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Cromwell Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Topband: Spam on the Reflector! On 06/19/2013 03:38 PM, Keith Jillings (G3OIT) wrote: > ---snip------ > > Yahoo's mail server was hacked a couple of weeks ago - I've had spam > or virus e-mails from most people I know who have a Yahoo e-mail > address. I don't know if Yahoo are acknowledging the problem yet. > > I spent some of last week clearing out the computers of a couple of > ladies in our congregation, and setting them up with decent AV (Avast, > needless to say). The friends whose accounts were used to infect > them were not to blame in any way - their address books were copied by > the hackers and used to send the nasties. > > It's all part of the fun! > > Keith > G3OIT Hi Keith, The thing with Yahoo is way older than 2 weeks. Once upon a time somebody pointed out that Yahoo hackers were getting access to the "address books" there. Those do NOT live on your computer. You have entrusted Yahoo with them. I immediately emptied out my address books on Yahoo and just for good measure on Gmail, too. I am just at the point of completely abandoning Yahoo and all my friends there. I do look at some emails that have raised suspicions but I have probably skipped over some that had "flaky" subject fields, *NO* subject, and certainly I look to see where a link is going to take me. So far that has been the unfailing belwether of obnoxious messages. It only takes a second to look. All of them are so obvious. 73, Bill KU8H _________________ Topband Reflector _________________ Topband Reflector
