On 11/29/2010 08:48 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2010 12:49:27 Jerry Feldman wrote: >> On 11/29/2010 06:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 02:12 -0800, Globe Trotter wrote: >>>> http://la-felce.it/index808.php >>> Isn't it time to ban this idiot? >> The problem here is that the user's yahoo password has been hacked. I >> have seen this exact same thing with other yahoo, gmail and aol >> addresses. The user needs to change his/her yahoo password to clear >> this up. > That wouldn't be so easy. If the e-mail account has been hijacked, the > hijacker has probably changed the password already, and the user doesn't have > access to his account anymore. He can ask for help from yahoo, but they are > usually unwilling to do anything unless the user can prove his identity and > that the account has actually been hijacked. They also typically refuse to > give help unless the user has a paid support account with yahoo. > > I don't know about aol and gmail, but I doubt they are any different from yahoo > in this respect. So unless the user has been paying for e-mail services to > yahoo (and really, why would he ever do that?! ;-) ), he is unlikely to > retreive his password any time soon... It is my experience with the several users I know whose accounts were hacked, it was by script and the passwords were not changed. A simple changing of the passwords stopped the SPAM. However, you are absolutely correct if the hacker actually changed the password. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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