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Old Feb 17th 2010 | 5:30 am
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I have just received and email, which appears to com from Yahoo.co.uk, telling me they have locked my profile due to a complaint made on the 29/1/10. There is a link that says if you wish to refute this click here, when I did, a porn page came up. Has anyone else had this, and what should I do if anything?
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Old Feb 17th 2010 | 6:28 am
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Originally Posted by dgjamison
I have just received and email, which appears to com from Yahoo.co.uk, telling me they have locked my profile due to a complaint made on the 29/1/10. There is a link that says if you wish to refute this click here, when I did, a porn page came up. Has anyone else had this, and what should I do if anything?
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Delete it and ignore.
 
Old Feb 17th 2010 | 7:16 am
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Originally Posted by el_richo
Delete it and ignore.
What he said above,,,, but give us the link first look mum no hands just porn
 
Old Feb 17th 2010 | 7:17 am
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Originally Posted by el_richo
Delete it and ignore.
It might also be worth changing the password on your Yahoo account. See here for more info - this is from Yahoo's "what do I do if I think my account has been hacked" FAQ page
 
Old Feb 17th 2010 | 7:19 am
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Originally Posted by Oakvillian
It might also be worth changing the password on your Yahoo account. See here for more info - this is from Yahoo's "what do I do if I think my account has been hacked" FAQ page
Thanks will have a look and do that
 
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Originally Posted by Gremmie
What he said above,,,, but give us the link first look mum no hands just porn
I would if I knew what to do, I still have it in my emails have'nt deleted it yet, so if you tell me how to do that I will#
 
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Default Re: scam or not?

You may also want to do a full virus scan, malware, spyware etc

Housecall does a pretty good job.
 
Old Feb 17th 2010 | 1:11 pm
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Definatley run a malware scan, it may have injected something into your browser/pc

Here is a good free one;

http://www.malwarebytes.org/
 
Old Feb 17th 2010 | 1:56 pm
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Default Re: scam or not?

Originally Posted by The Aviator
You may also want to do a full virus scan, malware, spyware etc

Housecall does a pretty good job.
thanks will do, I have unbuilt virus scan so will run it
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Originally Posted by spaceace
Definatley run a malware scan, it may have injected something into your browser/pc

Here is a good free one;

http://www.malwarebytes.org/
 
Old Feb 18th 2010 | 2:37 am
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Originally Posted by Gremmie
look mum no hands
Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
 

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