Today my yahoo email account started sending spam to my contacts today. It was some Canadian prescription drug website. Ive already changed my password. Does anyone know how this happened?
I had the same thing happen to me about a week ago.
I have a few yahoo accounts for different boards - mac rumors, running, scuba, etc - only the one that gets a ton of spam anyway (due to my using that account for my kids to enter online contests) is the one that was affected.
It also sent the same links that your did. I noticed that it didn't send them all at once, and only to a few contacts at a time. I'm not sure how it happened, but I solved the problem by deleting all my contacts from that account. I just pull up an old email if I need to email anyone that I'm still in contact with.
Anybody have any ideas how it happened? Especially seeing as I'm using a Mac Mini with all the latest updates to Snow Leopard, and the latest version of Firefox as my browser.
Possibly some dodgy link that I inadvertently clicked on. But at that time of day that the spam was sent, between 5PM and 6PM, I'm usually only reading news sites.