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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > I know yahoo accounts aren't the only ones prone to this. Hotmail, > gmail, msn, aol and wlm accounts are too. All the big, free, web based > accounts. Yes, any web-based account (not just email) is, by nature, susceptible to phishing, keyloggers and malware reading locally stored passwords. That would explain the account compromises at other webmail providers. With Yahoo, the problem is _much_ worse than that. > My feeling is that yahoo et al make money out allowing the spamming to > continue. I can't see how. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq