On 06/19/2013 03:38 PM, Keith Jillings (G3OIT) wrote:
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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
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