[ExI] Apologies was Re: (no subject)

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 17:03:22 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:16 PM, The Avantguardian  wrote:
> 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.
>

That sounds fine to me. If changing your Yahoo password stops the spam
then Yahoo was the source.
That doesn't mean that Yahoo was necessarily at fault. Your mail
password could have been guessed or obtained by some other method,
e.g. in an internet cafe or on a public wifi link.


Cheers, BillK



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