Hi my email got hacked. Now every mail that is sent to me in direct reply to mail I send does not come to me but goes to a different mail. Can anyone please help and is my mail safe?
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Hi My Email Got Hacked. Now Every Mail That Is Sent To Me In Direct Reply To A Mail I Send Does Not Come To Me?
Posted on November 28, 2012.
Often a hacker will change the Reply to: address as well as do other mischief to your account. There are several steps to take to keep your account safe other than just changing your password.
Yahoo’s advice is to change your password, but there are several more security settings to change than just your password. This Help page has more information, stated clearly, with several links to clarify the steps.http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=cont…
1. FIRST, check that the alternate e-mail address/mobile phone number is still yours, under Options, Mail Options, Account Information, but then change the alternate address! (so the hacker will not be notified of the change). Check the ‘Reply To:’ address in this section as well to be sure it is still yours.
Then change both your password AND your secret questions and answers. Make the password a long, strong one with mixed characters! Length = Strength for passwords! Start with a sentence and make substitutions with numbers, symbols and punctuation. Go to “Update password-reset info” to change your Secret Questions and Answers. Make sure they are unchangeable, unique, and easy for you to remember. For a Yahoo account, you can change your password at https://edit.yahoo.com/config/change_pw. If you can no longer access your account, you can get a new password at https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/.
See http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/ for more tips on creating a strong password(and what NOT to use)
*** Changing your password also deletes the cookie which apparently inserts that sly trojan address grabber that sends spam to your Contacts list. ***
If you used this password for other accounts, change them too – make every one different. Make the password much longer than 8 characters, with mixed symbols.
Usually, this is all you need to do, although mail will still be sent in the name of the old account for a short while – there’s nothing you can do about that. Once spammers have a valid address, they continue to use it, even after the account is closed/deleted!
2. 2. *** If spam mail was sent to any of your contacts, apologize, and notify all your contacts NOT to open short e-mails, especially those with no subject, and definitely not to click any links. Warn them to change their passwords and scan for malware too, just in case. (The limit is 100 addresses per mail, and 200 per hour, but send to far fewer than that in each message, just in case you trigger Yahoo’s spam ‘suspicious activity’ detector.) Set up an alternate ‘alias’ account to use instead. This allows you to use a different address for sending, but still keep all saved mails and contacts and the first address active too for incoming mail. Your friends can trust this new address! There is a choice of address in an arrow in the From: box. Also add a signature to your mail so your friends will be sure the mail is really from you …http://edit.yahoo..com/config/list_alias (alternate address)
Answers is a Jungle
The hacker set it up that way—-all you need to do is, go to your settings and change the “reply to” line back to your address.
Mail page>>options>>mail options>>Accounts (from the list on the left)>>then click on “Yahoo Mail”.(middle of page under accounts)
You will see a small link under the from line name, that says—change “reply to” setting.
Click that link and erase everything showing on that line—-AND leave it blank—-(or at least make sure it’s correct)—then click “save changes” at the top of the page.
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By leaving it blank, you are instructing Yahoo to send ALL replies to your current account address . It’s only “necessary” to put an address there if you want replies going to a different address.
First of all, you will need to change your password. You should also run a computer scan to check for viruses. It is also a good idea to see if your emails are being forwarded to another address by checking your mail forwarding settings.
Go to your inbox page
Options> Mail Options> POP Forwarding
Delete the address they have inserted to forward all email
Save changes if it calls for that, at the top of the page.