e-mail address hijacked

[pardes]

I use McAfee, Windows fire wall, AND run CCCleaner every few days and a few sneaky thing still find their way through. So far I've been able to deal with most of them when things start going wonky on the computer but it keeps me on my toes.

[liberty]

I had the EXACT same thing happen to me today. Yahoo account. Same title and message. And it deleted my entire address book. At first I thought I had clicked on some link I shouldn't have... And the interesting thing is this all happened while my account was shut down. I was online but did not have my email open. My dad (my personal computer genius ) said someone must have hacked into Yahoo. I will go ahead and change my password too. That'll be a transition, since I've had the same one for 7+ years.

I did a Housecall scan on my computer and it came up with only a few cookies, but nothing wacky. Dad has a pretty stringent firewall set up and does intense, frequent maintenance on the computers; his last maintenance session was just last week. Keep us posted on what Yahoo says happened. My brother also has a Yahoo account, but nothing weird happened to his.

[songlady]

It just happend to my yahoo account this afternoon.

[Grits]

Back up or at least copy your address book, just in case!

[bouncybouncy]

Thank you Thank you Thank you for the heads up!!! I am a yahoo'r...nothing yet on mine but I did change my password to a nice strong one! and backed up my address book...

I never open unknown emails...maybe that helps

hope you all get your info back and nothing worse...

[maillotpois]

I just got an email from Yellow to my non-Yahoo email address with this message/link. I deleted it - is that enough?

[AuntieK]

I just got an email from Yellow to my non-Yahoo email address with this message/link. I deleted it - is that enough?

Me too! I'll PM Yellow to let her know she should check her computer.
I hope deleting it is enough! I copied all my addresses just to be safe.

Thanks for the heads up on this one, Ladies!