OT: Kinda
Perhaps it's just due to my lack of vigilence but I had a scary experience
this past Saturday. I have a Yahoo mail account, and a Roadrunner mail
account. I have my Yahoo address in the contacts list of my Roadrunner
account and vice versa. On Saturday morning, both of my accounts recieved
a Spam e-mail FROM EACH OTHER!!!!!! I do not mail spam. The best I can
figure is that someone got into my computer remotely and routed at least
one spam e-mail through my accounts. My computer is now in the shop
being cleaned up and searched for any tell-tail trail from the perpetrator.
I've since changed all my passwords and closed that Yahoo account. I've
also replaced the wireless router with a hard-wired one. The wife will be
double checking all of our and our daughter's bank accounts quite closely
to ensure that those passwords and accounts weren't compromised before
we were able to change those passwords
Be careful folks. I don't know a lot about this kind of thing but somehow
someone had at least some amount of access to my personal life and
that is very unsettling. Fortunately, I do not keep personal records
on that computer.