Yahoo e-mail addresses hijacked?

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by gman863, Jan 9, 2013.

  1. gman863

    gman863 MajorGeek

    Despite my best efforts at keeping my PCs squeaky clean, it appears my Yahoo e-mail contacts are being harvested and hijacked to send out spam.

    The tipoff is that - every few weeks - I find a host of undeliverable failure notices (all at one time) for people I have not recently e-mailed. I'm thinking it is a problem at Yahoo's end; however I want to see if there is a chance something has infected my PCs that neither Malware Bytes or MSE is catching. Here are the details:

    * I am only accessing mail from the Yahoo homepage. It is not downloading into any e-mail program such as Outlook.

    * Neither Malware Bytes nor Microsoft Security Essentials detect any problems. Both are up to date.

    * I have tried deleting my Yahoo e-mail contacts stored on the server. It appears whatever is causing the problem is able to harvest addresses directly from old e-mails stored on Yahoo's server.

    * This happens on my work PC, home desktop and notebook. Again, no malware or viruses are detected on any of the PCs.

    * I am religious about not clicking on e-mail links. If an e-mail appears suspicious I delete it immediately.

    * This only happens on Yahoo. It does not happen on my Comcast or Microsoft e-mail accounts.

    Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance for your help.
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    In order for us to properly check to see if malware is at play, you need to run the below:


    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide

    However my guess is that someone has already gotten your contact list some how and is emailing your contacts and making it look like it came from you. Once they have you contact list, they don't need to get it again from Yahoo. They aleady have it and will always have it.

    Are your contacts actually receiving spam that looks like it comes from you?
     

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