famh1story@aol.com wrote: > This isn't hackers and to use that term is misleading. These are > emails that send you to a page that registers a click through and > also contains a phishing program that looks at your saved passwords > for hotmail and yahoo emails. All it needs to stop an account from > sending the mails is a change of password after running a spyware > checker. Sorry but it IS hacking. Whilst they do send a link with a payload, the origin is a hack. Yahoo have admitted as much. If it was a phishing program it wouldn't go purely for passwords for hotmail and yahoo mails, it would go for ALL email addresses in the account and a LOT more besides . If you look at the headers on these hacked addresses, you'll see addresses from a very wide range of ISPs and email providers. It's quite possible the hackers are also using a program which will tell them if a mail has been opened and how long it was open for and it won't be obvious by looking at the headers either. Nor is it a "read receipt". These can be refused any way in an email client at least - well, it can in mine. The program wasn't intended for hackers and spammers but, hey, since when's that stopped 'em? ALL the addresses this current round of malicious link mails are coming from are Yahoo accounts or accounts where Yahoo is providing the service, such as BTInternet, Xtra and ATT. There will be others. There are one or two coming from AOL addresses but I'm not currently seeing any from Hotmail addresses. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk