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03-13-2012, 12:21 PM | #1 |
Python Patrol
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My Yahoo email account has a virus that keeps sending emails to everyone I know. Anyone know how to stop this without deleting the account entirely??
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03-13-2012, 12:26 PM | #2 |
Hisstank.Com General
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That happened to me. Certainly reset your password to something super strong. I suggest a short sentence that's easy for you to remember with numbers and special characters.
Just to be safe I deleted my entire address book. That's kind of extreme, but I felt it was needed to make sure it doesn't happen again. Slowly, I've been building my address book up again. Perhaps you can export it to save it before deleting it from your yahoo account. Doing that seemed to work. It hasn't happened again. |
03-13-2012, 12:55 PM | #3 |
Python Patrol
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I will give that a shot, thanks!!
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03-13-2012, 12:57 PM | #4 |
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Yeah, delete the address book. Write down all the addresses you need on a piece of paper, neatly by hand, so you can recover them later. Reset your password and contact your email company.
DO NOT rebuild your address book until you know its taken care of. THEN do NOT, EVER, open those bullshit emails. Dont open shit thats been forwarded and dont click on bullshit links. You gotta be smart about your email. Youre lucky its only sending out bullshit messages and not a virus strong enough to crash your whole system. You got lucky! |
03-17-2012, 10:06 PM | #5 |
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my computer gave me the clap once
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