Yahoo Mail Worm/Virus?
This morning my Yahoo mail account sent out a series of Spam emails to random people from my address list. No one was logged into the account at the time this happened. My wife and I routinely access the account from a PC running Norton 360 and from two different Macs. So we're fairly confident none of these computers are infected with anything. I called AT&T/Yahoo tech support, and they indicated that the account appears to have been hacked by some sort of bot... and they thought the issue may be with my iPhone and the fact that it has no antivirus protection.
I took a look at the full headers of the Spam emails and was able to track the originating IP address to Sunnyvale, CA (Yahoo's headquarters). I then compared this with old emails sent from both my home PC and my iPhone. Only the iPhone generated emails went through the Sunnyvale IPs. The emails sent from all three computers on my home network originated from local IPs.
So, bottom line... this leads me to believe that it was indeed my iPhone that somehow triggered the emails. I was driving at the time the emails were sent... so I know I didn't click anything, open any emails, or take any other actions that would have triggered the Spam.
Any idea what's going on here? Should I be concerned that my iPhone has a worm or virus that is triggering these messages? I'm particularly trying to determine if this is just a worm or if an actual person has hacked my account. I changed the password... but that password was also used for some other accounts of mine too. My biggest concern at this point is the potential for identity theft.
I called AT&T/Yahoo tech support, and they indicated that the account appears to have been hacked by some sort of bot... and they thought the issue may be with my iPhone and the fact that it has no antivirus protection.
Sorry, but what a crock.
I seriously doubt this is a worm or virus on your iPhone. If so, you will be the first.
Nothing can be installed on an iPhone from a received email, from a website, or from a received MMS except for a photo, and I haven't read about any viruses or worms being included with a JPEG file. Unless your iPhone has been hacked/jailbroken and you have installed unofficial software on your iPhone from an unknown or untrusted source, it would be some trick for a virus or worm to be installed on your iPhone especially since there are no viruses that infect or affect OS X, and the iPhone runs an optimized version of OS X.
Spammers spoof email addresses - using a random/valid email address to appear as the sending email address for the spam usually making use of valid email addresses gathered from their "known good" email address list which is rotated from what is a huge list. A significant portion of spam is generated from Windows computers that have been taken over remotely by spammers with email generated with a spoofed email address without the user's knowledge.
I venture to say the emails were not generated from your iPhone. More than likely your email address has been spoofed by a spammer only - your email account has not been hacked but it can't hurt to change your account's password.
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Your iPad doesn't have a virus.
Perhaps those mails were ones that were queued and just went out? Or maybe they rehacked your account?
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cameronzcameronz wrote:
I am having a problem in that the "FROM" column in my Inbox (and all the other email folders) has recently started showing as blank for all my emails. However on my BT Yahoo Homepage the Yahoo Mail Preview box does still show who the emails are from.
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Hi. Welcome to the forums.
What browser are you using ? I personally use Firefox, Opera, Chrome or Safari with IE9 very infrequently. Maybe give a different a try to see what happens,.
As you indicated, it does seem to be a browser issue, maybe due to a security product update - what are you using for anti-virus or security product ?
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and don't tell me it's a yahoo problem. everything has been wrong since you forced me to upgrade.Some added toolbar and anti-virus add-ons are known to cause
Firefox issues. '''Disable All of them.'''
Separate Issue;
Your System Details shows;
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Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 12.0.5.146
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