Yahoo mail Hijacked

I just figured out the reason that I wasn't receiving any mail was that
somehow someone hijacked my email account and set the forwarding
address. Has anybody else had this happen to them?

Re: Yahoo mail Hijacked

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rlegan@yahoo.com writes:

> I just figured out the reason that I wasn't receiving any mail was that
> somehow someone hijacked my email account and set the forwarding
> address. Has anybody else had this happen to them?

There are literally tens of thousands of clueless wonders on the Internet
who are using Microsoft's shitware that has not been fully patched with all
the necessary security updates. As such, their machines are covertly
hacked, and hijacked using any number of known security holes in Microsoft's
shitware.

At which point the machine is usually used by an organized spam gang as part
of a spam distribution network, while the owner remains blissfully unaware
of what's going on behind the scenes. Or occasionally the owner's freemail
accounts may also be compromised, in a similar fashion.



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Re: Yahoo mail Hijacked

In article <1110287913.535286.79840@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
rlegan@yahoo.com says...

> I just figured out the reason that I wasn't receiving any mail was that
> somehow someone hijacked my email account and set the forwarding
> address. Has anybody else had this happen to them?

I have not, personally, experienced such a hijack. I do keep my system
current with patches, practice "safe hex", configure my system for maximum
security, at the price of not allowing a lot of the "cutesy, funsy" things
to be done.

One of the ways that can happen is to have a viral infection on your
computer which installs a keystroke logger. Or you "bit", hook, line, and
sinker, on a "phish". Or, just maybe, you used a password which was just too
easy to crack. Only you can track down what might have happened.

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Norman
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