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Post by fascinating on May 6, 2013 8:14:52 GMT 1
In the past couple of months I have started getting emails into my Yahoo inbox, where the sender is shown as my own email address. If I open the email it shows a link, which of course I ignore. When I get these things I usually delete them straight away, then change the password and that seems to stop them.
But yesterday I did change my password yet another email, purportedly from my own mailbox, was received.
Does anybody know how this can happen? And more importantly, how it can be stopped. I haven't been able to find any contact in Yahoo to help me.
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Post by mrsonde on May 6, 2013 10:38:01 GMT 1
Your email account inbox has been hacked, probably. Or your address has been sold by a company that you email to - "Linkedin" are notorious for that, for example. AOL do it to. I certainly wouldn't put it past Yahoo, given their difficulties. Either that or someone you email with has suffered a similar intrusion - or both, perhaps.
The answer is change you email account provider to someone more secure. Then email your new address to all those personal contacts in your book that you wish to receive emails from. Use your Yahoo or another account entirely to communicate with businesses. Use another account altogether for any commercial transactions - and close it the minute you get any spam.
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Post by mrsonde on May 6, 2013 10:43:33 GMT 1
There's a very nasty Trojan called Generic that does this. Very difficult to detect - very difficult to eradicate, because it also infiltrates common anti-virus programs.
Type into Google something like - how to delete Generic (28, 29, 30...) If you've got it it will have hijacked your browser and will send you to pages it's planted instead - and that will be obvious, if you've got any savvy at all.
If so - pm me and I'll tell you what to do. It's a ghastly process, and it'll take ages, I'm afraid.
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