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.
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