Your Yahoo mail account's been hacked and is sending out spam.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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Attention Star Ranger
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A frikin GAIN???
@%&()%!#*(%&()%$&(!)$% Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky? That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry- NO QUARTER!!! -- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children 
Are you sure it's not someone spoofing him?
If not, I'd start applying some 13-character mixed number/case/symbol shit on that.
Good question... And one I find especially intreguing as I'd just emailed someplace about Apartment availablity just 48 hours ago.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky? That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry- NO QUARTER!!! -- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children 
Hotmail got hit last week - I got the same spam from both Ayiekie's and Epsilon's accounts within a few minutes of each other. I guess it's Yahoo's turn this week.
But, yes, there's never a bad reason to change your password and run a virus scan... -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
MSN got tagged, possibly today; I got spam from three friends who use it. Granted that MSN and Hotmail are essentially the same thing, but still.
Seconding that gmail comment.  --sofaspud --"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs 
I just keep to really long passwords and antimalware.
Google won't accept my name for gmail. (And it isn't taken either --- The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself." >Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
Almsot 99% of the tmie I get spam from a supposed Hotmail or Gmail address it's spoofed anyway. There's a whole host of ways Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail can tell you if your account has been accessed by someone other than you if you ask.
Ranger, got more spam under your address today -- and they're not just spoofing your address on their "from" field, by my guess -- the list of recipients is short and other than me is composed of only Truss from EPU and seven other addresses, including "bradlambie", "Mariah4Quilting", "Lisacle" and "Skippys_ID". If any of those are familiar to you, you've got someone or something rooting around in your mail.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
*assorted deleted Explatives*
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky? That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry- NO QUARTER!!! -- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
Star, twice in this close succession suggests to me that you've got malware on your PC, sniffing your passwords. Because you changed it after the first time, as I recall; statistically, unless you're deliberately picking weak passwords, you shouldn't have been hit again anywhere near this soon.
--sofaspud --"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Assuming you're running a Windows box, the virus may have disabled your anti-virus program. Restart your computer in Safe Mode with Networking, download a brand-new anti-virus program (I like http://free.avg.com/ca-en/homepage]AVG Free), install it, and run a full system scan. This will take a while, but it'll find almost anything on your system that shouldn't be there.
(Alternately, if you have access to a second computer, use the second computer to download the anti-virus program and burn it to a disk, restart your computer in Safe Mode, install the AV software from that disk, and let it run. That's even better, but it does require a second computer...) -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
What he said.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
Personally, I'd store your imporant info, wipe, and rebuild.
Not a good idea... the important info may be contaminated as well. Isolate the important stuff (Like move it to a separate drive), start a deep scan of the important info, then wipe the old location and rebuild.
I wish to suggest Spybot - Search & Destroy, but it has a nasty habit of not 'playing well with the other anti-virus programs'. _____ DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...
Wipe-and-rebuild is a long, complicated procedure, not to be undertaken unless all easier options are ineffective. This is the escalation list for dealing with a virus - continue until a step works:
Note that all options end with "run virus scan". This step is important, and must be done last. -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 Kurisu Wrote:I wish to suggest Spybot - Search & Destroy, but it has a nasty habit of not 'playing well with the other anti-virus programs'.Could you elaborate on this? I've used it for some time and have not noticed problems. -- Sucrose Octanitrate. Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode. 
I have found that multiple antivirus programs never play well together on the same box.
They have the bad habit of trying to occupy the same niche in a system and either: 1) one breaks the other by trying to hook into the system at the same place 2) each think that the other one is malware 3) slow the system down to a crawl but then that may be old prejudices speaking, I haven't tried to install multiple anti-virus programs on one box in quite some time. -Terry ----- "so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today" TF2: Spy
What Sweno said.
That said, Spybot S&D -can- play nice with antivirus programs (I use avast! on one box and AVG on another), but you have to make sure that you're not using the realtime monitor for it to behave perfectly. SS&D is an excellent anti-malware program, but it is not an anti-virus program. --sofaspud --"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
*scratches head*
Right. thats whats so puzzling. I *have* avg, and I *Have* SS&D, and they both are supposed to auto run on a regular basis (nightly for avg, weekly for malware). Havnt had a problem for years, and then suddenly get whacked... what, twice in as many weeks? and how did they get my contact list? I thought web-based mail was supposed to be immune from that sorta fishing... Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky? That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry- NO QUARTER!!! -- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children 
It's probably sending your passwords to someone or another program that logs onto your account and gets the address book. If you already have avg I suggest www.malwarebytes.org to be run in safe mode.
-- If you become a monster to put down a monster you've still got a monster running around at the end of the day and have as such not really solved the whole monster problem at all.
Not asking for the obvious... but you have been keeping SS&D up to date, yes?
It's kinda heart-breaking that it's not automatic on it's updates. _____ DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...
If you keep up on windows update, you should have the latest (June's) version of Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool
You can start it up via: XP: Start->Run (or Windows Key + R) mrt Vista/7: type mrt into the text box Also, Microsoft makes a free AV solution called Microsoft Security Essentials. As far as free ones go, I like it the best.
I should add that the Windows Secrets newsletter -- one of the better power users' newsletters out there -- has recently endorsed Microsoft Security Essentials as being one of the better packages out there. Given that WinSecrets has tended not to like MS stuff in the past, this is high praise indeed.
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