If you got an email from me, it wasn't from me

[ashling]

Today both of my daughters called me minutes apart to let me know that my Yahoo mail account had been compromised. Apparently everyone on my email list got an email about Viagra.

I guess I will have to change my password. The only way to make it hard to crack is to use something that I will never be able to remember. :shrug:

[RandomThoughts]

1. I don't use email, in part for that reason.

Also I don't think anything posted about, or from anyone, is about the 'noun' but think on the function with out attaching it to a person, that way I can comment on a story without commenting about many noun changes done for smear in stories.

For instance, the people that added a picture to a video, that does not mean it is the person in the picture that did it, nor even what he thinks, however the effect of editing many good songs and stories is the effect that is the wrong done, and that is not tolerated.



That stuff has been being done for years,

and they don't need your passwords,

they are inside the companies that host email, and telecoms that send information between servers.

[inanna]

2. Happened to me too...

About two months ago. Weird emails being sent from my yahoo account. Some of my contacts let me know about it....

To me it's scary. And embarrasing.

[WillParkinson]

3. Oh that's just ducky...

And here I was about to order a lifetime supply. Thanks a lot. :p

[Toblerone]

4. you clicked a link

"most likely"
You clicked a link in an unsolicited email or in a browser, and your address book was compromised. You should run a malware scan.