My email account sends bogus emails to my contact list...how do I stop it?

This happened to me recently. They are using a security hole in the client side of the browser which allows a hacker to rewrite a cookie accessing your email contacts via PHP embedded in the email and is currently undetectable by Yahoo Mail. The IP address from the originating email for my case came from this IP address 183.89.26.154 (this can be found in the full email header) which I tracked it down to Thailand.

The link sent out to all my contacts accesses a website in Poland (a fake Canadian Pharmacy page) which will grab more emails based on the PHP Script similar to that below. I have currently deleted all my cookies and cleared all my saved passwords in Firefox and have also installed Spybot Search and Destroy since my virus scanner (Eset Smart Security) and MS Malicious Software Removal Tool didn't find anything. After you do all the above, change your password and clear your cookies out frequently.

Update: Also, DO NOT USE "KEEP ME SIGNED IN" check box by Yahoo/Hotmail when signing in, I believe this is "THE" problem based on the article I found below. Use Firefox browser's way to store the passwords since they are not cookie based and ALWAYS log out of any web based email to remove the current session cookie when finished. Here is a copy and paste of what I found and applies to both Yahoo mail and Hotmail.

How hackers steal yahoo passwords This article is ment to provide more info on how to protect your yahoo account and every account in general and should not be used for stealing someone's info, password etc. It's purely informative. My yahoo Id was recently accessed by an unknown person which used it to send promotional emails to my list of friends who, of course, accessed them leaving the hacker another open door, and another and so on, the chain never ends. Hopefully yahoo wakes up.

I did a search on this new thing that they use, it had to be something on the "client side", a bug that could be sent inside an email, a new thing, undetected by yahoo, yet - it's easyer to attack than to deffend they say. It didn't take me too much to find this code which writes the recipient's cookie (stored in C:/ under the Cookies folder) inside a . Log file that is copy-pasted by the hacker overwriting his own cookie that yahoo stored inside his computer and than easilly accessing the victim's yahoo email.

The bug: DIV id=b style="VISIBILITY: hidden" STYLE onload="window. Status='' var x = escape(document. Cookie).

Substr(0,1900) b. InnerHTML='';" type=text/css STYLE DIV ...which calls this php script: $file="cookie. Log" if (isset($_REQUEST"id") && isset($_REQUEST"cookie")){ $logcookie = $_REQUEST"cookie" $logcookie = rawurldecode($logcookie) $logemail = $_REQUEST"id".

Your contacts list has been compromised. The best thing to do is, Tell your friends not to click on any links in those email,as they will have virus/or worms attached You and your friends will need to do a full spyware scan. And once that's done Change your password,and that should stop it.

Make a note of your new Password. Good luck Jess :).

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