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May 18, 2011 at 1:00 pm
The spammer probably has your password. Most of the time this is obtained by phishing spam.
Change your password. Log into your Yahoo email and go to:
Options
Mail Options
Account information
You will be asked to give your password again. This is safe as long as you started from a proper Yahoo login, not a link from within a spam or other link.
From here you can change your password. However, you also want to look at the Contact Information.
You should find a Yahoo! Email that agrees with your account name. You may find a Home Email. This is an alternate contact address. There should not be one unless you entered one. If you find an unfamiliar one it could have been entered by the spammers. If they have inserted a home email under their control, they can report a “forgotten” password and collect the new password at that address.
If you do want to open a new account and abandon the old one, there are some things to do. Be sure that you have all your addresses copied to a text file, and empty your address book. You don’t want to leave those lying around for a spammer to exploit again. If there are important emails in your mailboxes forward them to your new email address. Empty all your mailboxes and empty the trash.
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May 18, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Sounds like your E-mail account has been compromised, or you picked up a virus, David.
Immediately have your computer checked for a ‘bug’ or ‘bugs.’ If you have the proper programs, do the scans yourself, if not you need to take your computer to some one who can.
Once it is clean of pests, install a firewall and an anti-virus program if you do not have one yet.
I strongly recommend a program for malware and adware also.
After you finish this, then go in and change your password, using a good strong one.
Also, check your account information and make sure no information was changed, if it was change it back immediately.
Then, you will have to inform your contacts that it was not you sending that mail, but they need to check their computers in case they were also infected.
If you really want to leave Yahoo, then go into your account and erase/delete everything that you do not want there. Once you have done that, and copied everything that you wish to place into the new account, including forwarding all the E-mail that you want to save to the new account, then you can delete the Yahoo account. First, make very sure that is what you want to do, if you delete the account you can never get it back, or use that ID name, either.
Any other yahoo programs associated with your mail account will also be deleted.
If you are sure:
Click on the help at the upper right corner of the screen from the account you want to delete.
Help /Account and password /Your Account Info / How can I delete my account
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