[ExI] Apologies was Re: (no subject)

[The Avantguardian]

----- Original Message -----
> From: BillK <pharos at gmail.com>
> To: The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com>; ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 2:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [ExI] (no subject)
> 
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:50 AM, The Avantguardian wrote:
>>  http://www.stadtsoldaten-buchholz.de/tmp/dspvs.php
>> 
>>  _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> Oh, Oh! Looks like avantguardian has been infected by a spam virus,
> sending ads to exi-chat and people in his contact list.
> 
> The German site has been hacked with a page that links to a diet pills
> spam page.
> 
> Time for anti-virus cleanup project.

My apologies to Bill and anyone affected by this incident. It is a curious situation. The spam emails occured while my computer was off ( I got a bunch of failure notices from Yahoo's mailer daemon and recieved the spam to my other email accounts since I email things to myself fairly regularly.) A short while ago, I ran both Malaware Bytes and Avast and neither program found anything (I was looking for keyloggers or other spyware  that could have compromised my Yahoo account since an active local infection of my computer was hopefully ruled out by the computer being off.) Both scans came back negative. I am therefore operating under the assumption that the security breach was on Yahoo's end and changed my account password and retrieval information. If Bill or anyone else has any further advice, I am open to suggestions.
Stuart LaForge
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”- Karol Józef Wojtyla