my email contacts compromised?

[brnot2b]

A friend called and said she got email from me that I didn't send. it has my name on it but when she clicked on the from line where it had bakers it showed a different email address. When I clicked to view full header this is some of what it showed:

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 194.27.18.38
Received-SPF: pass (domain of gazi.edu.tr designates 194.27.18.38 as permitted sender)

X-Originating-IP: [194.27.18.38]
Authentication-Results: mta1104.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com from=gazi.edu.tr; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=gazi.edu.tr; dkim=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 204.127.217.85 (EHLO fgateway15.isp.att.net) (204.127.217.85)
by mta1104.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:44:03 +0000
Received: from mx.gazi.edu.tr ([194.27.18.38]) by att.net (frfwmxc15) with SMTP
id <20141130144359f0100j8hmje>; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:44:01 +0000
X-Originating-IP: [194.27.18.38]
Received: (surgate 16620 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Nov 2014 14:43:57 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO mx.gazi.edu.tr) ([email protected]@81.7.97.165) by 0 with ESMTPA; 30 Nov 2014 14:43:52 -0000

 

What do I do? obviously it is spam that was sent out but how was my contact list used? What do I need to do to make sure this doesn't happen again?

 

[nigsy]

^{First thing I would do would be to change your password for you email accounts - but do it on another PC; not on your everyday one.}

^{Next I would open a new topic in our Virus & Malware forum and get one of the guys and Gals' there to run a few scans and make sure there's nothing nasty going on.}

 

^{Most of these things are linked to crawler programs that just harvest email addresses and then just send out 1000's of random emails; the chance of you actually having an issue is slim.}

[Y kawika]

Be sure to get in and change your password, but also clear your browser cache, dump cookies and history as well.

For IE7, 8, 9, 10, or 11, go to Start>Control Panel>Network and Internet>Internet Options>Browsing History>Delete> and click the button to delete the temporary Internet Files, then click 'yes', 'close', 'OK'.

Consider using a program like ccleaner on a regular basis as well: https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

If you are running XP and IE 8, stop it!

Here are some alternative choices to try:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95346?hl=en

Mozilla Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Opera: http://www.opera.com/computer/windows

This is a write up of the most likely way that your address book was compromised: http://www.techblog.co.nz/414-YahooXtraWhatactuallyhappened

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[nigsy]

Good read. I must confess I never log out of web based mail.....guess I will from now on!!