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My Yahoo email and IM has been hacked

My yahoo account has been penetrated on my Mac computer. A virus is going through all of my contacts and randomly selects 3 contacts and emails them from what appears to be my account. My free Sophos trial version was able to locate some files, which I deleted. However, it hasn't helped to stop more damage. Currently someone is going online in my Yahoo Messenger, is using my photo and is posing as me, trying to get my contacts to take an IQ test. This happened when I was asleep and my computer was off! Although Sophos found some contaminated files and I manually removed them...this new IM hacker is occurring.  I have a MAC single processor with OSX 10.4.4. Sophos is not picking up anymore files or is able to prevent someone from hacking my email account.  What can i do to permanently eliminate this hacker from my computer? Thanks!

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  • Hello Debbie,

    your account is not on your Mac but at Yahoo. The items found by Sophos (BTW: it's not a trial but a full free version) on your Mac might or might not be related. If someone has managed to get hold of your account details he can use them from wherever he wants. I suggest you go this this Yahoo page for recommended actions.

    HTH

    Christian

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  • Hello Debbie,

    your account is not on your Mac but at Yahoo. The items found by Sophos (BTW: it's not a trial but a full free version) on your Mac might or might not be related. If someone has managed to get hold of your account details he can use them from wherever he wants. I suggest you go this this Yahoo page for recommended actions.

    HTH

    Christian

    :10891
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