Account Was Hacked

[Kaotic Lazagna]

My email account on Yahoo was hacked today, and a malware virus was sent to all my contacts. DO NOT OPEN ANY STRANGE TITLED EMAILS FROM ANYONE YOU KNOW!

Here's what I found on google:

Somehow an email with the subject "Surprise for you." went out to everyone in my address book?
Yesterday morning an email with the subject "Surprise for you." went out to everyone on my address list. It came from IP 99.188.13.86. Did they compromise my account? Did this happen to anyone else? I've changed my password and erased everyone from my address book. I do NOT want this to happen again. The email had a link to an "orz3.exe" file on rapidshare. I'm not posting the link. Anyway, one of my friends opened the file and now her computer is acting crazy. Does anyone know how this file is infected and what is needed to clean her computer up?

* 1 month ago

If she can get on the internet, It is a malware problem, I suggest that she look at the forum. http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?pro... this is a thread on clearing malware and the best programmes for the job. If she is stuck she can ask for more advice from the guys who are all regulars and very good. If it blocks her access then you can do it for her and get the necessary programmes. Good luck both of you.

* 1 month ago

[YarisSedan]

tell her download superantispyware the best antispyware there is. Some would say its super. I tried many different antispywares on my girlfriends even the kinds you pay for and this was the only one that oculd remove a tough one few months back.

Trick is to boot up in safe mode that way no viruses are active and running in the background so that the antispyware can safely remove it without leaving any traces behind to reinfect your computer.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

That person wasn't my situation. hehehe. That's what I had found out on google about this email hacking, virus sending situation. Good advice tho. Thanks.

[supmet]

I've had a yahoo account for over 10 years and have never gotten a virus, or someone hacking my account..

I'm guessing you picked up a trojan/keylogger somewhere else and they got your email password that way.

Run Spybot, Avast or AVG, and Firefox with KeyScrambler and NoScript..

If you can't google a fix for the virus within a week, and no antivirus fixes it - fdisk and reinstall - its the only way to truly fix windows these days.

[*MAD DOG*]

Go with gmail

Much better.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

No conflicker, but there are 3 in my registry, and 1 in my files. I'll remove them later.