Here in NZ thousands of Yahoo users through Telecomwhich uses Yahoo for email, were hacked like that. I had not realised it was outside NZ too. Ina Ina Crossley Auckland New Zealand Zone 10 On 7/03/2013 3:45 a.m., David Pilling wrote: > Hi > > Denys > It looks as your computer is hacked > don't open this link > Roland, thanks for pointing this out. Denys is now on moderation. > > From moderating this list and others, it seems to me that yahoo has a > particular problem. I've not seen an explanation that offers a solution. > > If you're on yahoo make sure you have a strong password (and not the > default password). > > A strong password, is something others don't know and can't guess, so > for one thing it is long. There is a list out on the web of common > passwords - they are a starting point of things to avoid. > > See: > > http://tinyurl.com/a7wnmoh/ > > > >