I am sick and tired of spam emails being sent from my Yahoo account. I’m thinking of removing my account as everyone in my contact list has been receiving this junk. I have run spyware and antivirus software and nothing has helped. My friends are all frustrated as they keep getting junk from me. It also wipes out my sent folder – can someone PLEASE HELP ME???
Why Are Spam Emails For Viagra Being Sent From My Email Address To My Contacts?
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I got one of those myself…..=((
Per Yahoo this is being caused by a virus. It spreads out through your email account and it sends spam emails to the contacts that are in your address book and to yourself if your address is in your contact list without your knowledge.
There are many viruses in existence today (often called “worms”), that propagate when an email attachment containing the virus is sent to an email address found in an infected user’s computer (e.g., address book, local files, etc.).
To stop the sending out of spam please change your Yahoo! password.
The users that have encountered this before stopped the sending out of spam after changing their Yahoo! password.
You can use this link to change your password.http://edit.yahoo.com/config/change_pw
you will be asked to enter your current password once and your new password twice. click “Save”.
You might want to run a virus scan on your computer and it sometimes helps to run a virus scan in the SAFE MODE. This can be accomplished by restarting your computer and slowly clicking on the F8 button on your keyboard while the computer is starting up
You might also want to change your secret question/answer.
To change or update your secret question and answer you can use the form at http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/acct/in…
NOTE; It is helpful if you sign out of your email account before you shut you computer off AND during the day when you are going to be away for any length of time.
spyware. you can use more than one anti spyware on your computer.http://download.cnet.com/windows/interne…